About this title: 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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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780804747387ISBN:0804747385
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2003-10-23
ISBN-13:9780804747387ISBN:0804747385
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: STANFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780804747387ISBN:0804747385
Description: New. In "The Open, " contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the ways in which, throughout the history of Western culture, man has been distinguished from animal, and in his inquiry discovers that the human arises not from the "conjunctio... read more
"My god, but this was thick. Rather like a summary of the authors of the term than anything particularly novel. Indeed, it was often difficult to tease out the original philosophy from the explorations of others'."
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