Is the human animal really an animal? On Virno and philosophical anthropology

The aim of this paper is to criticize the concept of human nature such as biological invariant in which Virno bases his work Scienze sociali e "natura umana". Facolta di linguaggio, invariante biologico, rapporti di produzione (2003). Namely, I want to discuss the Philosophical-Anthropological premise by which his most important thesis is inspired: there is an essential link between this biological invariant and the social and historical conditions of the Post-Fordist capitalism. My hypothesis is that this concept of human nature draws on the humanistic and anthropocentric understanding of modern subjectivity, according to which in order to reflect on the human ontological uniqueness it ends up establishing an ontological abyss between human and animal nature, while it fails to think both human and animal animality.