agambeni állatságok
The end of human history has been proclaimed or predicted by many and in many ways. But what happens to man when history ends?
Every year, Kijárat Publishers publishes some of the most curious and exciting works in the field of domestic cultural studies. Now, in partnership with the philosophy journal Kellék, they bring us a double presentation of the publisher's latest Agamben book (The Open. The Animal and the Human) and a special Agamben issue of the journal.
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According to Giorgio Agamben, "the decisive political conflict" has always arisen from man's being both animal and human, and all political debate can be traced back to this conflict. And it is essential to map and understand this conflict in order to imagine and describe man after history. Agamben explores how man is imagined and imagined as a being similar to or radically different from the animal. Analysing the works of Bataille, Linne, Uexküll, but above all Heidegger, among others, he reveals the workings of the 'anthropological machine', the procedures and gestures that produce man by distinguishing him from the animal and making him a historical being.
In conversation with Veronika Darida, the book's translator, and Zalán-Györg Ilyés, the magazine's editor, Ármin Tillmann.
At the event, newer and older publications from Kijárat Publishing will be available for purchase at a great discount.
