Zwierzę, którego nie ma. Experimentum de hominis natura
The Non-existent Animal. Experimentum de hominis natura

Summary/Abstract: The article endeavours to propose a critical outline of the interpretation space within which the admirers of post-humanistic attempts at establishing a new economy of relations between the animal and human worlds recognise Giorgio Agamben as an adherent of the cassation of a caesura separating man from animals. This attribution, popular within the context of the animal studies energetically developing in recent years, proves to be difficult to maintain upon the basis of an unbiased acquaintance with Agamben’s book L’uomo e l’animale. A re-contextualisation of the Agamben project proposed in further parts of the sketch makes it possible to reconstruct the course of his argumentation from the viewpoint of a formula of post-humanistic anthropology (i.e. a non-anthropocentric anthropology) sought by this philosopher. From this vantage point, Agamben appears to be not so much a spokesman for the abolition of the anthropological difference as a supporter of its profanation, i. e. a neutralisation of its destructive effects.

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