by Eric L. Santner (Author)
In his own reading of Rainer Maria Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence, but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges have a biopolitical aspect.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
Edition: New
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 0226735036
ISBN 13: 9780226735030