The Open: Man and AnimalIn '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. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Acephalous | 5 |
Snob | 9 |
Mysterium disiunctionis | 13 |
Physiology of the Blessed | 17 |
Cognitio experimentalis | 21 |
Taxonomies | 23 |
Without Rank | 29 |
Umwelt | 39 |
Tick | 45 |
Poverty in World | 49 |
The Open | 57 |
Profound Boredom | 63 |
World and Earth | 71 |
19 Desœuvrement | 85 |
Index of Names | 101 |
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according acephalous alalus Alexandre Kojève already animal captivation animal environment animal heads animal's poverty anthropological machine aporias appears Aquinas articulation Bataille become Benjamin Bichat blessed body caesura Carolus Linnaeus carriers of significance cealedness Chapter closed comport concealedness concealment constitutes course Dasein defined disconceal disinhibitor Emmanuel Levinas empty end of history essence essential functions fundamental Giorgio Agamben Gnostic Haeckel Hegel Heidegger's Heymann Steinthal Homo sapiens human world humanitas Ibid insofar Jacques Derrida Jakob von Uexküll Kojève Kojève's language lecture Linnaeus living man's Martin Heidegger Maurice Blanchot means messianic metaphysical mystery nature not-open ontological original in Heidegger originary Paradise Parmenides philosophy political possibilities of Dasein posthistorical poverty in world precisely profound boredom recognize refuse rela relation relationship righteous saved night Sein und Zeit sense sion soul Steinthal Stimmung suspension Systema things tick tion Titian totality trans Umwelt unconcealedness unsavable Walter Benjamin Werner Hamacher world and earth writes
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Page 3 - the wolf shall live with the sheep, / and the leopard lie down with the kid; / the calf and the young lion shall grow up together, / and a little child shall lead
Page 9 - If Man becomes an animal again, his arts, his loves, and his play must also become purely “natural” again. Hence it would have to be admitted that after the end of History, men would construct their edifices and works of art as birds build their nests and spiders spin their webs, would perform musical concerts after the fashion of frogs and cicadas, would play
Page 11 - is, values completely empty of all “human” content in the “historical” sense. Thus, in the extreme, every Japanese is in principle capable of committing, from pure snobbery, a perfectly “gratuitous
Page 25 - coming nearest to Mankind; seems the Nexus of the Animal and the Rational, as your Lordship, and those of your High Rank and Order for Knowledge and Wisdom, approaching nearest to that kind of Beings which is next above us; Connect the Visible, and Invisible World. 2
Page 6 - is, Action negating the given, and Error, or, in general, the Subject opposed to the Object. In point of fact, the end of human Time or History—that is, the definitive annihilation of Man properly
Page 6 - essentially, there is no longer any reason to change the (true) principles which are at the basis of his knowledge of the World and of himself. But all the rest can
Page 50 - by way of a privative interpretation; it determines what must be the case if there can be anything like mere-aliveness [Nur-noch-leben]. Life is not a mere being-present-at-hand, nor is it Dasein. In turn, Dasein is never to be defined ontologically by regarding it as
Page 6 - of the World and of himself. But all the rest can be preserved indefinitely; art, love, play, etc., etc.; in short, everything that makes Man happy.
Page 11 - Post-historical” Japanese civilization undertook ways diametrically opposed to the “American way.” No doubt, there were no longer in Japan any Religion, Morals, or Politics in the “European” or “historical” sense of these words. But Snobbery in its pure