The Open: Man and Animal
Short Title:
The Open
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2003
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Pages:
118
Sources ID:
79951
Collection:
Anthropocene and the Environmental Future
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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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.