
Onto-Ethologies
The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze
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- English
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Onto-Ethologies
The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze
About this book
Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.
German biologist Jakob von Uexküll focused on how an animal, through its behavioral relations, both impacts and is impacted by its own unique environment. Onto-Ethologies traces the influence of Uexküll's ideas on the thought of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gilles Deleuze, as they explore how animal behavior might be said to approximate, but also differ from, human behavior. It is the relation between animal and environment that interests Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze, and yet it is the differences in their approach to Uexküll (and to concepts such as world, body, and affect) that prove so fascinating. This book explores the ramifications of these encounters, including how animal life both broadens and deepens the ontological significance of their respective philosophies.
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Table of contents
- Onto-Ethologies
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between Ontology and Ethology
- 1. Jakob von Uexküll’s Theories of Life
- 2. Marking a Path into the Environments of Animals
- 3. Disruptive Behavior: Heidegger and the Captivated Animal
- 4. The Theme of the Animal Melody: Merleau-Ponty and the Umwelt
- 5. The Animal-Stalks-at-Five-O’Clock: Deleuze’s Affection for Uexküll
- CONCLUSION: Uexküll and Us
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index