Onto-Ethologies - The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau Ponty,

Informationen zum Autor Brett Buchanan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University. Klappentext 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Brett Buchanan
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780791476123
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-7612-3
• Pagine: 236
• Serie: SUNY Series in Environmental P; SUNY Series in Environmental P; Suny Environmental Philosophy; SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PHILOSOPHY / General, NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Applied ecology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy