Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans : With A Theory of Meaning.
Title:
Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans : With A Theory of Meaning.
Author:
von Uexkull, Jakob.
ISBN:
9780816675388
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Series:
Posthumanities
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Umwelt after Uexküll -- Translator's Introduction -- A FORAY INTO THE WORLDS OF ANIMALS AND HUMANS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Environment Spaces -- The Farthest Plane -- Perception Time -- Simple Environments -- Form and Movement as Perception Marks -- Goal and Plan -- Perception Image and Effect Image -- The Familiar Path -- Home and Territory -- The Companion -- Search Image and Search Tone -- Magical Environments -- The Same Subject as Object in Different Environments -- Conclusion -- A THEORY OF MEANING -- Carriers of Meaning -- Environment and Dwelling-shell -- Utilization of Meaning -- The Interpretation of the Spider's Web -- Form Development Rule and Meaning Rule -- The Meaning Rule as the Bridging of Two Elementary Rules -- The Composition Theory of Nature -- The Sufferance of Meaning -- The Technique of Nature -- Counterpoint as a Motif/Motive of Form Development -- Progress -- Summary and Conclusion -- Afterword: Bubbles and Webs: A Backdoor Stroll through the Readings of Uexküll -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll "a high point of modern antihumanism." A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll's revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species' morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt , while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll's work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds out new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the whole framework of biopolitics itself.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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