caa a22 4500 463165330 CHVBK 20180406164759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-007-9047-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-007-9047-4 Colony Tracy European College of Liberal Arts, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156, Berlin, Germany aut Before the abyss: Agamben on Heidegger and the living [Elektronische Daten] [Tracy Colony] In his recent book The Open: Man and Animal, Giorgio Agamben examines the relation between the essence of the human and the living in Martin Heidegger's thought. Focusing on the treatment of this relation in Heidegger's 1929/30 lecture course "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,” Agamben argues that the dimension of the open, which is central to Heidegger's understanding of the human essence, can be seen as implicitly dependent upon Heidegger's account of the essence of animality. In this essay, I argue that Agamben's reading is insufficient because it has not taken full account of the specifically temporal character of the openness proper to Heidegger's understanding of the human essence. In conclusion, I present an alternative account of the way in which Heidegger framed his descriptions of animality in the 1929/30 lecture course as articulating the openness characteristic of human being. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Heidegger nationallicence Agamben nationallicence Humanism nationallicence Animality nationallicence Continental Philosophy Review Kluwer Academic Publishers 40/1(2007-03-01), 1-16 1387-2842 40:1<1 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9047-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9047-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Colony Tracy European College of Liberal Arts, Platanenstrasse 24, 13156, Berlin, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Kluwer Academic Publishers 40/1(2007-03-01), 1-16 1387-2842 40:1<1 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer