Eric Santner

Eric L. Santner (born 1955) is an American scholar. He is Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, and Chair, in the Department of Germanic Studies, Harriet and at the University of Chicago, where he has been since 1996. [He was Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History.and Chair of Germanic Studies from 1996 to 2003, when he was succeeded by Bernard Wasserstein.]

He was an undergraduate at Oberlin College, graduating in 1977, and a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a doctorate in 1984. [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970123/chairs.shtml] He then taught at Princeton University.

His writing covers literature and psychoanalysis, religion and philosophy. It deals with German poetry, post-war Germany, and the Holocaust. His 2001 book "On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig" tackles the question of religious tolerance, [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030109/tolerance.shtml] , based on the work of the Jewish religious philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

Works

*"Friedrich Hoelderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination" (1986)
*"Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory and Film in Postwar Germany" (1990)
*"My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity" (1996)
*On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (2001)
*"Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century" (2003) editor with Moishe Postone.
*"The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology" (2005) with Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard
*"On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald" (2006)

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External links

* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/german/faculty/santner.html]