Otherness and the Case of the Animal-Human: Interrogating the Post-Human from Tymieniecka's Ontopoiesis Multilayered Organization of Life

This paper will be aimed at exploring two philosophical theses. They are common both to the phenomenology of life and the general reflections of Post-human studies. The first thesis—pars destruens—can be summarized in the philosophical need of deconstructing the primacy of anthropology or anthropocentrism. The phenomenology of life leads us to this deconstruction, through the ontological connection between human being and levels of otherness. The second thesis—pars costruens—is a result of this anthropological deconstruction and the need to understand the ontological link between human and animal otherness. The level of animal otherness is decisive for the recovery of the intrinsic role of otherness in the processes of identification/ differentiation of man in the world.