Onto-Etholog Me : The Animal Environments of

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. This book explores the ramifications of these encounters, including how animal life both broadens and deepens the ontological significance of their respective philosophies. Book jacket.

Brett Buchanan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University.

Acknoledgments	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: Between Ontology and Ethology	p. 1
Jakob von Uexkull's Theories of Life	p. 7
Biography and Historical Background	p. 9
Nature's Conformity with Plan	p. 12
Umweltforschung	p. 21
Biosemiotics	p. 28
Concluding Remarks	p. 36
Marking a Path into the Environments of Animals	p. 39
The Essential Approach to the Animal	p. 44
Heidegger and the Biologists	p. 46
Three Paths to the World	p. 55
Disruptive Behavior: Heidegger and the Captivated Animal	p. 65
The Worldless Stone	p. 69
The Poor Animal	p. 71
Three Bees and a Lark	p. 78
Animal Morphology	p. 88
A Shocking Wealth	p. 97
A Fine Line in the Rupture of Time	p. 101
An Affected Body	p. 112
The Theme of the Animal Melody: Merleau-Ponty and the Umwelt	p. 115
The Structure of Behavior	p. 116
A pure Wake, A Quiet Force	p. 130
A Leaf of Being	p. 138
Interanimality	p. 146
The-Animal-Stalks-at-Five-O'Clock: Deleuze's Affection for Uexkull	p. 151
Problematic Organisms	p. 151
Uexküll's Ethology of Affects	p. 154
The Body without Organs, the Embryonic Egg, and Prebiotic Soup	p. 162
Nature's Refrain Sung across Milieus and Territories	p. 173
The Animal Stalks	p. 182
Conclusion: Uexkull and Us	p. 187
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 217
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