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- Title
Animals, Language, and Life: Searching for Animal Attunement with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
- Authors
Bannon, Bryan E.
- Abstract
This essay elaborates the meaning of Merleau-Ponty's conception of life as a power to invent the visible" by differentiating it from Heidegger s claim, in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, that the essence of humanity is to be world-forming. By considering how history and language influence conceptions of life, the essay argues that the various forms of animal life are structurally similar to human life while at the same time are different insofar as different species exhibit distinct ways of living their bodies. Thus, one can maintain a metaphysical continuity between different bodies, while ensuring their difference and specificity.
- Publication
Environmental Philosophy, 2009, Vol 6, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1718-0198
- Publication type
Academic Journal