The royal remains
Subtitle: the people's two bodies and the endgames of sovereignty
By: Eric L. Santner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226735351; 9780226735368
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sovereignty and the vital sphere -- Of kings and other creatures -- Toward a science of the flesh -- Was heisst Schauen? : On the vital signs of visual modernism -- The stages of the flesh: Shakespeare, Schmitt, Hofmannsthal -- The poet's two bodies: Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.