Abstract

CANDILORO, Hernán. Poverty, Life and Animality in Heidegger’s Thought. arete [online]. 2012, vol.24, n.2, pp.263-288. ISSN 1016-913X.

Heidegger’s 1929 lectures published under the title The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude inquire about the animality of the animal. Their intention is to elucidate the aspect in which the peculiarity of life resides and that, eluding every attempt of getting caught under mechanistic or biological interpretations, Heidegger finds in what he names "poverty". In this context, this paper intends to investigate the link between this poverty, the one that characterizes the animal in 1929, and the consideration of the peculiarity of man in the same terms since 1945. Through this investigation, our goal will be to make explicit the ontological bond between humanity, animality and corporealness present in men.

Keywords : Heidegger; life; animality; poverty; world.

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