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. Translator's Note
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Theriomorphous
1(4)
Acephalous
5(4)
Snob
9(4)
Mysterium disiunctionis
13(4)
Physiology of the Blessed
17(4)
Cognitio experimentalis
21(2)
Taxonomies
23(6)
Without Rank
29(4)
Anthropological Machine
33(6)
Umwelt
39(6)
Tick
45(4)
Poverty in World
49(8)
The Open
57(6)
Profound Boredom
63(8)
World and Earth
71(4)
Animalization
75(4)
Anthropogenesis
79(2)
Between
81(4)
Desœuvrement
85(4)
Outside of Being
89(4)
Notes
93(8)
Index of Names
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