Animal Poverty: Agamben, Heidegger, and Whitehead 17 Tamkang Review 49.1 (December 2018): 17-32. DOI: 10.6184/TKR201812-2 █ Animal Poverty: Agamben, Heidegger, and Whitehead Gregg Lambert Syracuse University Abstract This article examines the concepts of “the animal” and “animality” in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, particularly in response to the recent de- bates in the fields of Animal Studies and Posthumanism, as well as in response to the revelation of the Black Notebooks where earlier statements regarding the animal being “poor in world” also find a resonance with Heidegger’s meditations on the relationship between the German people (Volk) and the European Jews. The article concludes by introducing the perspective of “life itself ” from the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and especially concerning the famous proposition “Life is robbery.” Keywords: Agamben, Heidegger, Whitehead, animal (animal studies), animal (as “poor in world”) Gregg Lambert is currently Dean’s Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, USA and Distinguished International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. Author of eleven books, critical editions, and more than a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, Professor Lambert is inter- nationally renowned for his scholarly writings on critical theory, philosophy, the role of the Humanities in the contemporary university, and, especially for his work on the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. He has lectured internationally and been invited as a Visiting Fellow at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Ewha University, Seoul National University, in 2010 was appointed as the BK21 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Western Sydney University, New South Wales. His most recent works are Return State- ments (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), and Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Email: glambert@syr.edu. (Received 5 May 2017; Accepted 16 November 2018)