Eric L. Santner

Eric Santner, the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, has published eight books that are recognized internationally as major theoretical and interpretive interventions. His work addresses crucial features of modern experience – questions of selfhood, neighborly love, nervousness, immitigable suffering, biopolitics, political theology, and more. Taken together, Santner’s work constitutes a deep and internally consistent body of work that has been broadly influential across the humanistic disciplines. In 2014, he delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values (Berkeley). His work has been translated into Korean, Polish, German, and French.