1st Edition
Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy Life, Environments, Anthropology
Foreword. Philosophizing with Animals
Brett Buchanan
Introduction. A Foray into Jakob von Uexküll’s Heritage
Francesca Michelini
PART 1. Jakob von Uexküll and His Historical Background
Chapter 1. Jakob von Uexküll, an Intellectual History
Juan Manuel Heredia
Chapter 2. Kantian Ticks, Uexküllian Melodies and the Transformation of Transcendental Philosophy
Maurizio Esposito
Chapter 3. Uexküll’s Legacy: Biological Reception and Biophilosophical Impact
Kristian Köchy
PART 2. Jakob von Uexküll’s Relevance for Philosophy
Chapter 4. Creative Life and the Ressentiment of Homo Faber. How Max Scheler integrates Uexküll’s Theory of Environment
Ralf Becker
Chapter 5. Closed Environment and Open World: On the Significance of Uexküll’s Biology for Helmuth Plessner’s Natural Philosophy
Hans-Peter Krüger
Chapter 6. Ernst Cassirer’s Reading of Jakob von Uexküll: Between Natural Teleology and Anthropology
Carlo Brentari
Chapter 7. The Philosopher’s Boredom and the Lizard’s Sun. Martin Heidegger’s Interpretation of Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory
Francesca Michelini
Chapter 8. Animal Behavior and the Passage to Culture: Merleau-Ponty’s Remarks on Uexküll
Tristan Moyle
Chapter 9. The Organism and its Umwelt: A Counterpoint between the Theories of Uexküll, Goldstein and Canguilhem
Agustín Ostachuk
Chapter 10. From Ontology to Ethology: Uexküll and Deleuze & Guattari
Felice Cimatti
Chapter 11. Hans Blumenberg: The Transformation of Uexküll’s Bioepistemology into Phenomenology
Cornelius Borck
Chapter 12. Giorgio Agamben: The Political Meaning of Uexküll’s "Sleeping Tick"
Marco Mazzeo
Chapter 13. Jakob von Uexküll and the Study of Primary Meaning-Making
Kalevi Kull
Chapter 14. Jakob von Uexküll’s Theory of Umwelt Revisited in the Wake of the Third Culture: Staging Reciprocity and Cooperation between Artistic Agents
Jui-Pi Chien
Afterword. A Future for Jakob von Uexküll
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Biography
Francesca Michelini is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kassel (Germany). Her main fields of research are the antireductionist theories of life and the bridging of continental philosophy and science. She is author of many publications on the topic of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of the life sciences, teleological explanations in nature, and autonomy in biology (among others: The Living and the Deficiency. Essays on Teleology 2011, in Italian).
Kristian Köchy is a biologist and Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Kassel (Germany). His research focuses on the areas of philosophy of science and the history of the life sciences, natural philosophy and the philosophy of animal-human relations. He is author of an introduction on Biophilosophy (2008, in German) and co-editor of a three-volume collection on the philosophy of animal research (Philosophie der Tierforschung, 2016-2018).
