Heidegger's Metaphysical Abyss: Between the Human and the Animal

by Elizabeth Cykowski

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198865406
• ISBN13: 9780198865407
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"