The open : man and animal /

The open : man and animal /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Uniform title:	Aperto. English
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 102 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Meridian, crossing aesthetics Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Human beings -- Animal nature. Human beings -- Animal nature. Philosophical anthropology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130951

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ISBN:	1417556900 9781417556908 0804767068 9780804767064 0804747377 9780804747370 0804747385 9780804747387
Notes:	"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. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- Aperto. English. Open. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004 0804747377 0804747385

Table of 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.