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Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With A Theory of Meaning (Posthumanities) Book

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.Read More

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    A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans : Paperback : University of Minnesota Press : 9780816659005 : 0816659001 : 01 Nov 2010 : The influential work of speculative biology-and a key document in posthumanist studies-now available in a new, accurate English translation.

  • Blackwell

    Introduction: Umwelt after Uexkúll 1 Translator's Introduction by Dorian Sagan 35 A Foray Into The Worlds Of Animals And Humans by Dorian Sagan Foreword by Dorian Sagan 41 Introduction by Dorian Sagan 44 Environment Spaces by Dorian Sagan...

  • 0816659001
  • 9780816659005
  • Jakob von Uexkull
  • 3 November 2010
  • University of Minnesota Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 248
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