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Open. Man and animal

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What is human, and where is the line crossed by which an animal becomes human? In his essay "The Open" (2002), the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) continues his reflections on bare life, begun in his book series "Homo sacer," and explores the problematic "and" that connects and separates animals and humans. In the context of the Hegelian-Kozhevian end of history, when biological life becomes the state's primary concern—people are animalized and creatures anthropomorphized—humans remain those to whom, unlike animals, existence can be revealed as "open," or, in ancient Greek, "unhidden" (truth). Drawing on the works of Heidegger, Uexküll, and Benjamin, Agamben suggests paying attention to this elusive caesura between man and animal, revealed in Benjamin’s “saved night,” which penetrates the inner part of man himself and becomes the key to understanding humanism after all the upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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