{"product_id":"foray-into-the-worlds-of-animals-and-humans","title":"Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans","description":"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eA key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, \u003ci\u003eA Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e extends his thinking on the \u003ci\u003eumwelt\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eumwelt\u003c\/i\u003e holds out new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the whole framework of biopolitics itself.","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263278960984,"sku":"9780816659005","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780816659005_3914ac95-e80d-43b5-b189-a3c3e8ec01ac.jpg?v=1779426914","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/foray-into-the-worlds-of-animals-and-humans","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}