Heidegger's Metaphysical Abyss

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 th...