Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy: Life, Environments, Anthropology

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List of contributors
Foreword: Philosophizing with animals
Introduction: a foray into Uexküll’s heritage
PART I Jakob von Uexküll and his historical background
	1	Jakob von Uexküll, an intellectual history
	2	Kantian ticks, Uexküllian melodies, and the transformation of transcendental philosophy
	3	Uexküll’s legacy: biological reception and biophilosophical impact
PART II Jakob von Uexküll’s relevance for philosophy
	4	Creative life and the ressentiment of Homo faber: how Max Scheler integrates Uexküll’s theory of environment
	5	Closed environment and open world: on the significance of Uexküll’s biology for Helmuth Plessner’s natural philosophy
	6	Ernst Cassirer’s reading of Jakob von Uexküll: between natural teleology and anthropology
	7	The philosopher’s boredom and the lizard’s sun: Martin Heidegger’s interpretation of Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory
	8	Animal behavior and the passage to culture: Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on Uexküll
	9	The organism and its Umwelt: a counterpoint between the theories of Uexküll, Goldstein, and Canguilhem
	10	From ontology to ethology: Uexküll and Deleuze & Guattari
	11	Hans Blumenberg: the transformation of Uexküll’s bioepistemology into phenomenology
	12	Giorgio Agamben: the political meaning of Uexküll’s “sleeping tick”
	13	Jakob von Uexküll and the study of primary meaning-making
	14	Jakob von Uexküll’s theory of Umwelt revisited in the wake of the third culture: staging reciprocity and cooperation between artistic agents
Afterword: a future for Jakob von Uexküll
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