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1. 1. The Animal/Man That Therefore I Am

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Stephen Ervin; [2013]
   Keywords : animal; human; Animal Man; animal rights; comics; Derrida; Heidegger; Agamben; human-animal boundary; hybridity; intelligence; language; work; rich-in-world; poor-in-world; tools; powers.;

   Abstract : Grant Morrison’s Animal Man could be argued to worry the man/animal boundary. Using closereadings of the comics against the backdrop of Jacques Derrida’s and Martin Heidegger’stheories on the boundary between man and animal, I explore the following ideas which seemcommon in the discourses on that which separates humans from animals: intelligence vs. READ MORE