Onto-Ethologies

The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze

By: Brett Buchanan

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Paperback | 1 July 2009

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German biologist Jakob von Uexkull 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 Uexkull'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 Uexkull (and to concepts such as world, body, and affect) that prove so fascinating.

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"Brett Buchanan's Onto-Ethologies, which takes on the crucial task of elucidating the philosophical import of some Uexk¼llian concepts and tracking their fate in the work of three major later philosophers, is ... both welcome and long overdue." - Symposium

"...this is a subtle book, a welcome engagement with a renewed focus on certain strands of biophilosophies of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on animals at a time when the so-called 'animal question' is moving through a whole ream of different disciplines." - Radical Philosophy

"Most interesting, perhaps, is Buchanan's conscious attempt to bridge continental philosophy with the sciences ... This book will likely prove exciting for those interested in the environmental thinking of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze." - Environmental Philosophy

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