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

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.

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Other title:	Aperto. English.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Italian
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Series:	Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Subjects:	Philosophical anthropology. Human beings > Animal nature.