Eric Santner

Eric Santner is Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies.  His work is situated at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and religious thought. He originally came to German Studies by way of philosophy, which he studied in Bonn (primarily Kant and Heidegger) and Freiburg (primarily Hegel and Heidegger). Other writers who have fundamentally shaped his sense of things include: Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Daniel Paul Schreber, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald.