Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans Uexkull Jakob von
Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans Uexkull Jakob von Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexk ll embarks on a…
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Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans Uexkull Jakob von
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexk ll 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. Is it a mere object or a subject?
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 Uexk ll "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 Uexk ll'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
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