| Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze Contributor(s): Buchanan, Brett (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791476111 ISBN-13: 9780791476116 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Cosmology - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 113.8 |
| LCCN: 2008000121 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: German biologist Jakob von Uexk ll 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 Uexk ll'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 Uexk ll (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. |
