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The Open: Man and Animal

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Description for The Open: Man and Animal Paperback. In "The Open", contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether. Translator(s): Attell, Kevin. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.

The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming—or has come—to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals?

In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804747387
SKU
V9780804747387
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About Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. This is the fifth of his books published by Stanford; previous titles are Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), and Potentialities (1999).

Reviews for The Open: Man and Animal
"[The Open] turns to perhaps the most basic distinction of existence: that between human beings and animals. The thin volume provides an impressive historical survey of the problem, offering a dizzying scope of debate over the nature of animality, including expositions of figures as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Georges Bataille, Heidegger, Alexander Kojève, Benjamin, and the German zoologist Jakob von ... Read more

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