Negative Anthropology: Shakespeare, Sophocles, Freud

Bio: Eric Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. His most recent publications are Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory and Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment, with William Mazzarella and Aaron Schuster.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of German, the Humanities Council, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Center for Collaborative History and the Program in Media and Modernity