Onto-Ethologies(English, Hardcover, Buchanan Brett)

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Onto-Ethologies(English, Hardcover, Buchanan Brett) is written by Buchanan Brett and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791476111 (ISBN 10) and 9780791476116 (ISBN 13).

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought. German biologist Jakob von Uexkuell focused on how an animal, through its behavioral relations, both impacts and is impacted by its own unique environment. Onto-Ethologies traces the influence of Uexkuell's ideas on the thought of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gilles Deleuze, as they explore how animal behavior might be said to approximate, but also differ from, human behavior. It is the relation between animal and environment that interests Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze, and yet it is the differences in their approach to Uexkuell (and to concepts such as world, body, and affect) that prove so fascinating. This book explores the ramifications of these encounters, including how animal life both broadens and deepens the ontological significance of their respective philosophies.