The Open: Man and Animal Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Giorgio Agamben; Kevin Attell (Translator)
First line
In the Ambrosian Library in Milan there is a Hebrew Bible from the thirteenth century that contains precious miniatures.
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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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- Title The Open: Man and Animal
- Author Giorgio Agamben; Kevin Attell (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 120
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2003-10-23
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780804747387 / 0804747385
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.3 x 0.31 in (23.52 x 16.00 x 0.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Human beings - Animal nature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003018253
- Dewey Decimal Code 128
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