...Richard T. Gray On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald . By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University...

.... doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008 On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls “psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...

.... doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008 On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls “psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...

.... doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008 On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls “psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...

.... doi 10.1215/00267929-2008-008 On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. Eric L. Santner views On Creaturely Life as a contribution to the field he calls “psychotheology,” a mode of literary study...

... such as the historian Saul Friedlander and the cultural critic Eric L. Santner, LaCapra has in these two books offered the most convincing explo- ration of the relationship of trauma and the work of mourning to the events and aftermath of the Holocaust. More focused and unified in approach and argument than...

... nihilism or ecstatic new begin- nings, that emerges from experiences of historical trauma or destructive vio- lence. LaCapra’s most prominent recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume...

... of historical trauma or destructive vio- lence. LaCapra’s most prominent recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing, and rethinking former themes...

..., that emerges from experiences of historical trauma or destructive vio- lence. LaCapra’s most prominent recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing...

... interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing, and rethinking former themes and reengaging familiar interlocutors Modern Language Quarterly 72:2 (June...

... recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing, and rethinking former themes and reengaging familiar interlocutors Modern Language Quarterly...

... of historical trauma or destructive vio- lence. LaCapra’s most prominent recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing, and rethinking former themes...

.... LaCapra’s most prominent recent interlocutors — Jacques Derrida, of course, but also Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Eric Santner — retain a prominent place in this volume. LaCapra’s pattern of revisiting, reconsider- ing, and rethinking former themes and reengaging familiar interlocutors...