The open : man and animal / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Kevin Attell.

By:

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 102 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1417556900
9781417556908
0804767068
9780804767064

Uniform titles:

Aperto. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Open.DDC classification:

128 22

LOC classification:

BD450 .A3613 2004eb

Other classification:

08.36
CC 6600
5,1

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Contents:

Theriomorphous -- Acephalous -- Snob -- Mysterium disiunctionis -- Physiology of the blessed -- Cognitio experimentalis -- Taxonomies -- Without rank -- Anthropological machine -- Umwelt -- Tick -- Poverty in world -- The open -- Profound boredom -- World and earth -- Animalization -- Anthropogenesis -- Between -- Desœuvrement -- Outside of being.

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Summary: 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.

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"Originally published in Italian in 2002 under the title L'aperto : l'uomo e l'animale"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-99) and index.

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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.

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