Agamben's Bored Animals

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Invasive Thoughts

Nicholas Bellinson and Khafiz Kerimov

8 episodes

5 days ago

Let our thoughts invade yours. Khafiz and Nicholas teach at St. John's College, Annapolis. Follow us on Instagram: @invasive_thoughts

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Let our thoughts invade yours. Khafiz and Nicholas teach at St. John's College, Annapolis. Follow us on Instagram: @invasive_thoughts

Philosophy

Society & Culture

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Agamben's Bored Animals

Invasive Thoughts

1 hour 22 minutes 9 seconds

5 months ago

Agamben's Bored Animals

What distinguishes human beings from animals? The question has been a mainstay of philosophy for over two thousand years. Is it our bipedalism? Our rationality? Or could it be our capacity for boredom? Giorgio Agamben takes up this question and its consequences in The Open: Man and Animal (2002).