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Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course __The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics__. In these lectures, Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal is 'poor in world.' Contemporary secondary literature has emphatically criticised these theses on account of the objection that they forge an 'abyss of essence' between human and nonhuman organisms. The theses undermine scientific developments by breaking apart the biological continuum in order to secure the human within in its own unique category, all the while leaving the world-poor animal on the other side of the abyss. Heidegger thus reinstates an outmoded dualism that he ought, on his own terms, to renounce: human versus animal. __Heidegger's Metaphysical Abyss__ undertakes a close examination of the lecture course in order to clarify the true meaning, scope, and significance of Heidegger's theses. Drawing on other places within Heidegger's writings where the theme of animality features, Cykowski demonstrates that Heidegger's examination of animality points beyond received dualisms back to a more essential

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Author

Elizabeth Cykowski

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198865407

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics