Main entry:

Uexküll, Jakob von, 1864-1944.

Title & Author:

A foray into the worlds of animals and humans : with A theory of meaning / Jakob von Uexküll ; translated by Joseph D. O'Neill ; introduction by Dorion Sagan ; afterword by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Edition:

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.

Description:

272 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 12

Notes:
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dorian Sagan -- 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 -- 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 -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Summary:

"The pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexkull (1864-1944) 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 Uexkull "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 Uexkull'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 adequated 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. --Book Jacket.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780816658992 hardcover
0816658994 hardcover
9780816659005 paperback
0816659001 paperback

Subject:

Animal behavior.
Psychology, Comparative.
Perception.
Psychologie comparée.
Tierökologie
Sozialökologie
Tiere
Allgemeine Zoologie
Wildtiere
Zoologie
Philosophie
Theorie
Methodologie
Etologi.
Djurpsykologi.
(lcsh)Animal behavior.
(lcsh)Psychology, Comparative.
(lcsh)Perception.

Added entries:

Uexküll, Jakob von, 1864-1944. Theory of meaning.
O'Neil, Joseph D., translator
Sagan, Dorion, 1959- writer of introduction
Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Posthumanities ; 12.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298064
Call No.: BIB 244360
Status: Available