Description: 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 animal altogether. In an argument that ranges from ancient Greek, Christian, and Jewish texts to twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kojeve, Agamben examines the ways in which the distinction between man and animal has been manufactured by the logical presuppositions of Western thought, and he investigates the profound implications that the man/animal distinction has had for disciplines as seemingly disparate as philosophy, law, anthropology, medicine, and politics.
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EAN: 9780804747387
UPC: 9780804747387
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Book Title: The Open: Man and Animal (Meridian: Crossing Aesth
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
Publication Name: Open : Man and Animal
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
