In short, Agamben says, we are both, animal and man, 'open to a closedness.' (In an amusing sidenote here, Agamben speculates that this 'being delivered over to something that refuses itself...[perhaps] defines the specific emotional tonality' or 'characteristic Stimmung...of Heidegger's thought' -- a rather general statement that probably applies to everyone who ever wrote after Heidegger if ever there was one.)

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