The article asks whether there is an anthropological difference within the basic style by which human beings exist 'in' world. Perhaps this difference manifests itself only when the human being has become estranged from any normal relation to world: when it has been changed into a shape of subjectivity that no longer shares the common net of a world of sense, and remains only an 'animal.' The moment is tragic in that the attempt to live an alternative style of worldly being results in the 'animalyzed' subject's condemnation to death.