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Onto-Ethologies
SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
J. Baird Callicott and John van Buren, editors
Onto-Ethologies
The Animal Environments of
Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,
and Deleuze
Brett Buchanan
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Buchanan, Brett, 1975–
Onto-ethologies : the animal environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, Merleau-
Ponty, and Deleuze / Brett Buchanan.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7914-7611-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy of nature. 2. Naturalness (Environmental sciences).
3. Animals (Philosophy). I. Title.
2008
113'.8—dc22 2008000121
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Between Ontology and Ethology 1
1. Jakob von Uexküll’s Theories of Life 7
Biography and Historical Background 9
Nature’s Conformity with Plan 12
Umweltforschung 21
Biosemiotics 28
Concluding Remarks 36
2. Marking a Path into the Environments of Animals 39
The Essential Approach to the Animal 44
Heidegger and the Biologists 46
Three Paths to the World 55
3. Disruptive Be