{"product_id":"9781452903798","title":"A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: with A Theory of Meaning","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eumwelt\u003c\/em\u003e 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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, \u003cem\u003eA Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans\u003c\/em\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. \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Meaning\u003c\/em\u003e extends his thinking on the \u003cem\u003eumwelt,\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eumwelt\u003c\/em\u003e holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134945771760,"sku":"9781452903798","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452903798_p0.jpg?v=1763845260","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452903798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}