GLAS I JEZIK: O ČOVEKU I ŽIVOTINJI U AGAMBENOVOJ FILOZOFIJI
VOICE AND LANGUAGE: ON MAN AND ANIMAL IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF AGAMBEN

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we will analyze Agamben’s consideration of the relationship between the concepts of man and animal. In The Open, Agamben writes most explicitly on these terms, and he invents the concept of the anthropological machine that is continuously „producing” the concept of man by creating rhetorical distinctions between the concept of the man and concept of what animal should be. In this paper, we will analyze the functioning of Agamben’s anthropological machine, but we will also try to point out that his consideration of the work of the machine is also present in his earlier works, specifically in his earlier works on the concept of language. The concept of human language turns out to be an essential product of the machine’s work through the well-known definition of the man: the man is a speaking animal, an animal that has logos.

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