Eric L. Santner (born 1955) is an American scholar.
He is Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, and Chair, in the Department of Germanic Studies, at the University of Chicago, where he has been based since 1996.
[2] Santner's writing covers literature, psychoanalysis, religion, and philosophy.
It deals with German poetry, post-war Germany, and the Holocaust.
His 2001 book On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig tackles the question of religious tolerance using the work of the Jewish religious philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.