Eric L. Santner
University of Chicago
Bibliography
Books
The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy [The Tanner
Lectures in Human Values]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015.
The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. German translation, September,
2015; Spanish translation under contract.
On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2006.
The Neighbor. Three Inquiries in Political Theology (with Slavoj Zizek and
Kenneth Reinhard). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Italian translation, 2009; Korean translation, 2010; Spanish translation in
preparation. Polish translation of my essay in Krytyka no. 14 (2007/08); full
Polish translation 2013.
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Hebrew translation, 2005; German translation, 2010.
Honorable Mention, Koret Jewish Book Award in Philosophy and
Thought; Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize (MLA);
Honorable Mention, René Wellek Prize (ACLA).
My Own Private Germany. Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Portuguese translation, 1997.
Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1990.
Friedrich Hölderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Books and Journals Edited
Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century (with
Moishe Postone). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Dossier on Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony (with David Levin).
Modernism/Modernity 8.2 (April 2001).
Friedrich Hölderlin. "Hyperion" and Selected Poems. New York: Continuum,
1990.
Articles / Chapters in Books
“What’s Left After Rights?” Law and Critique 26 (2), 2015.
Response to My Critics. On-line forum on “The Royal Remains: The People’s
Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty.” Journal of Cultural and
Religious Theory (Spring 2012).
“Sovereign Debt: On Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory.” Artforum
Vol. 50, No. 7 (March 2012).
“The Royal Remains: Carl Schmitt’s Hamelt or Hecuba.” Telos 153 (Winter
2010): 1-21.
“Neighbors and Other Creatures.” Zur Gegenwärtigkeit deutsch-jüdishen
Denkens: Festschrift für Paul Mendes-Flohr. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2011: 7594.
“Reflections on the Somatic Sublime.” Cahiers parisiens 5 (2010).
“Was heisst Schauen? On the Vital Signs of Modernist Painting.” German Life
and Letters 62: 3 (July 2009): 284-296.
“Überlegungen zum somatisch Erhabenen.” Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 3: 1
(2009): 35-46.
“Beyond Apologetics. Franz Rosenzweig’s ‘Queer Theory’ of Anti-Semitism,” in
Franz Rosenzweigs „neues Denken“. Internationaler Kongress Kassel 2004, ed.
Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kwarzik. Munich: Karl Aber Freiburg, 2006: 1082-94.
“Loving the Neighbor-Thing: Freud with Rosenzweig.” International Journal of
Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 157-173.
“Was will der Philosoph? A Response to Pippin,” in Erotikon: Essays on Eros,
Ancient and Modern, ed. Shadi Bartsch and Thomas Bartscherer. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
“1913: The New Thinking,” in The New History of German Literature, ed. David
Wellbery, Judith Ryan, Dorothea von Mücke. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2004.
“Catastrophe and Meaning” (with Moishe Postone). Introduction to Catastrophe
and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2003.
“Locations of Memory.” Erwägen Wissen Ethik (2002, Heft 2), 220-22.
“From the Reign of the Undead to the Blessings of More Life,” in Singularitäten.
Literature—Wissenschaft—Verantwortung. Ed. Marianne Schuller, Elisabeth
Strowick. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 2001. 145-162.
“Some Reflections on States of Exception.” Alphabet City: Culture, Theory,
Politics 7 (2000): 154-59.
“Psychoanalysis and the Enigmas of Sovereignty.” Qui Parle (Fall/Winter 1999):
1-19.
“States of Emergency: Toward a Freudian Historiography of Modernity.”
Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary
Culture. Ed. Peter Brooks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 205-10.
“Wagner, Kafka, Schreber.” Enden sah ich die Welt. Wagner und die Philosophie
in der Oper. Trans. Bernd Liepold-Mosser. Vienna: Turia & Kant, 1999. 67-100.
“Freud’s Moses and the Ethics of Nomotropic Desire.” October 88 (Spring 1999):
3-41. Reprinted in Renata Slaecl, ed., Sexuation. Durham: Duke University Press,
2000. 57-105.
"My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity."
Ed. Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus. Modernity, Culture, and "The Jew."
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998. 40-62 (reprinted with Stanford Univ. Press).
"Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich's Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern is
published." Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture,
1096-1996. Ed. Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1997. 736-741.
"Freud, Zizek, and the Joys of Monotheism." American Imago 2 (Summer 1997):
197-207.
"Mein ganz privates Deutschland: Daniel Paul Schrebers geheime Geschichte der
Moderne." Ed. Jörg Huber and Alois Martin Müller. Die Wiederkehr des Anderen.
Frankfurt a.M.: Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1996. 169-196. Further
versions/variations of this essay have appeared in French in Revue germanique
internationale (5/96): 183-204 and in Slovenian in Mladen Dolar, ed., Primer
Schreber. Ljubljana: Analecta, 1995. 165-185.
"Kafka and the Writing of Abjection." The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka. Trans.
and ed. Stanley Corngold. New York: Norton, 1996. 195-210.
"Postmodernism's Jewish Question: Slavoj Zizek and the Monotheistic Perverse."
Discussions in Contemporary Culture: Visual Display. Ed. Lynne Cooke and
Peter Wollen. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995. 236-54.
"Hölderlin in an Expanded Field: A Postmodern Reading of 'Andenken'."
Philosophy Today (Winter 1994): 402-410.
"The Trouble with Hitler: Postwar German Aesthetics and the Legacy of
Fascism." New German Critique 57 (Winter 1993): 1-20. German translation
published in Texte zur Kunst (June 1993): 35-51.
"History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Thoughts on the Representation of
Trauma." Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution.
Ed. Saul Friedländer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. 143-154. A
portion of this was has been reprinted in The Holocaust. Theoretical Readings, ed.
Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003),
214-220.
“Reading Hölderlin in the Age of Difference,” introduction to Friedrich
Hölderlin. "Hyperion" and Selected Poems. New York: Continuum, 1990.
"On the Difficulty of Saying 'We': the Historians' Debate and Edgar Reitz's
Heimat." History and Memory 2 (Winter 1990): 76-96.
"Frederic Morton" (with H. B. Moeller). Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit
1933: New York. Ed. John M. Spalek. Bern: Francke Verlag, 1989.
"Of Masters, Slaves, and Other Seducers: Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle."
Modern Austrian Literature 3/4 (1986): 33-48.
"Sober Recollections: Hölderlin's De-Idealization of Memory in 'Andenken'." The
Germanic Review 1 (1985): 16-22.
"Paratactic Composition in Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'." The German
Quarterly 2 (1985): 165-172.
"Geschlossenheit, Geschichte und Welt in Joseph Roths Radetzkymarsch." Rocky
Mountain Review 1 (1982): 45-59.