Onto-ethologies : the animal environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze /
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| Author / Creator: | Buchanan, Brett, 1975- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : SUNY Press, c2008. |
| Description: | xii, 223 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7476288 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between Ontology and Ethology
- 1. Jakob von Uexkull's Theories of Life
- Biography and Historical Background
- Nature's Conformity with Plan
- Umweltforschung
- Biosemiotics
- Concluding Remarks
- 2. Marking a Path into the Environments of Animals
- The Essential Approach to the Animal
- Heidegger and the Biologists
- Three Paths to the World
- 3. Disruptive Behavior: Heidegger and the Captivated Animal
- The Worldless Stone
- The Poor Animal
- Three Bees and a Lark
- Animal Morphology
- A Shocking Wealth
- A Fine Line in the Rupture of Time
- An Affected Body
- 4. The Theme of the Animal Melody: Merleau-Ponty and the Umwelt
- The Structure of Behavior
- A Pure Wake, A Quiet Force
- A Leaf of Being
- Interanimality
- 5. The-Animal-Stalks-at-Five-O'Clock: Deleuze's Affection for Uexkull
- Problematic Organisms
- Uexkull's Ethology of Affects
- The Body without Organs, the Embryonic Egg, and Prebiotic Soup
- Nature's Refrain Sung across Milieus and Territories
- The Animal Stalks
- Conclusion: Uexkull and Us
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index