Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

Agamben maintains that Heidegger continues the work of the anthropological machine by defining Dasein as uniquely open to the closedness of the animal. Yet, Agamben’s own thinking does not so much open up the concept of animal as it attempts to save humanity from the anthropological machine that al...

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Main Author: KELLY OLIVER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2007-12-01
Series:PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture
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Online Access:https://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/index.php/phaenex/article/view/236