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Eric Santner Germanic Studies Department Chair; the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies; Professor in Germanic Studies, the Committee on Jewish Studies and the College Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Eric Santner, a leading scholar of German literature, cinema and history, is the Chair of the Germanic Studies Department. He studies 18th-century poetry, issues of memory and mourning in postwar German society, Holocaust literature and film, and the use of psychoanalysis in the study of literature, culture and society. He is the author of My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity (1996), a study of paranoia in late 19th-century German society, as well as Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory and Film in Postwar Germany (1990), Friedrich Hoelderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination (1986) and the forthcoming Neighbors, A Love Story. Santner's most recent publications are On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, and The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (with Slavoj Zizek and Kenneth Reinhard). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Santner has been at Chicago since 1996.
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International conference to revisit the Holocaust in light of the new millennium |
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Chronicle articles:
Honored book questions concept of tolerance January 9, 2003 |
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