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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life"
Featuring Eric Santner

Slought Foundation | Thursday, October 31, 2002; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy
Conversations in Theory Series



Project Website (with 73 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11085/

"On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life" is an attempt to put Freud in dialogue with his contemporary Franz Rosenzweig in the service of reimagining ethical and political life in the age of globalization.


Eric L. Santner is the Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig; My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity; Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany; Friedrich Hölderlin: Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination.