A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans write by Jakob von Uexküll. This book was released on 2013-11-30. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within posthumanist philosophy, influencing such figures as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben, who has called Uexküll “a high point of modern antihumanism.” A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans advances Uexküll’s revolutionary belief that nonhuman perceptions must be accounted for in any biology worth its name; it also contains his arguments against natural selection as an adequate explanation for the present orientation of a species’ morphology and behavior. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, while also identifying an overarching and perceptible unity in nature. Those coming to Uexküll’s work for the first time will find that his concept of the umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.
Environment and Inner World of the Animals
Environment and Inner World of the Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environment and Inner World of the Animals write by Jakob Johann Von Uexküll. This book was released on 2021-04-11. Environment and Inner World of the Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world's first book on Bio-Cybernetics.
Humans, Animals, Machines
Humans, Animals, Machines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humans, Animals, Machines write by Glen A. Mazis. This book was released on 2008-09-04. Humans, Animals, Machines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.
Animal's People
Animal's People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal's People write by Indra Sinha. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Animal's People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Animal's People" is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics write by Edward C. Halper. This book was released on 2005-01-12. One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. This omission is all the more surprising because the Metaphysics is one of our principal sources for thinking that the problem is central and for the views of other ancient philosophers on it.The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognized as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. Halper uses the problem of the one and the many as a lens through which to examine the Central Books. What he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency and argumentative coherence in a work that almost everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. Rather than trying to elucidate Aristotle's doctrines-most of which have little explicitly to do with the problem, Halper holds that the problem of the one and the many, in various formulations, is the key problematic from which Aristotle begins and with which he constructs his arguments. Thus, exploring the problem of the one and the many turns out to be a way to reconstruct Aristotle's arguments in the Metaphysics. Armed with the arguments, Halper is able to see Aristotle's characteristic doctrines as conclusions. These latter are, for the most part, supported by showing that they resolve otherwise insoluble problems. Moreover, having Aristotle's arguments enables Halper to delimit those doctrines and to resolve the apparent contradiction in Aristotle's account of primary ousia, the classic problem of the Central Books. Although there is no way to make the Metaphysics easy, this very thorough treatment of the text succeeds in making it surprisingly intelligible.
