The Living World of Animals
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780340128831
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The Logos of the Living World
Author: Louise Westling
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0823255670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals. In his late work, Derrida complained of philosophers who denied that animals possessed such faculties, but he never investigated the wealth of scientific studies of actual animal behavior. Most animal studies theorists still fail to do this. Yet more than fifty years ago, Merleau-Ponty carefully examined the philosophical consequences of scientific animal studies, with profound implications for human language and culture. For him, “animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning.” Human being is inseparable from animality. This book differs from other studies of Merleau-Ponty by emphasizing his lifelong attention to science. It shows how his attention to evolutionary biology and ethology anticipated recent studies of animal cognition, culture, and communication.
The Big Book of Animals of the World
Author: Ole Könnecke
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 177657012X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large format board book of animals from all over the world, illustrated with charm and humor. Each spread in this big book focuses on a continent or ocean and features animals unique to that part of the world. Simple but charming, this is a great mix of world tour and day at the zoo, with plenty of room for spontaneous storytelling.
Living World
Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780756604295
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A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
Author: Jakob von Uexküll
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013-11-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781452903798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.” A key document in the genealogy of posthumanist thought, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans 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. A Theory of Meaning extends his thinking on the umwelt, 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 umwelt holds new possibilities for the terms of animality, life, and the framework of biopolitics.
Life's Devices
Author: Steven Vogel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1988-12-21
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691024189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes how living things bump up against nonbiological reality.
The Soul of All Living Creatures
Author: Vint Virga, D.V.M.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307718875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs profiled in the New York Times Magazine… Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and explores the relationships we forge with them. As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals and taught him to respect the kinship that connects us. With The Soul of All Living Creatures, Virga draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality. Virga discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand. Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures offers an intimate journey into the lives of our fellow creatures and a thought-provoking promise of what we can learn from spending time with them.
The Usborne Living World Encyclopedia
Author: Leslie Colvin
Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780794527846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimple, yet informative text combines with extraordinary photographys, maps, animal facts and classification charts.
The World of Animals
Author: Martin Walters
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780890516171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides facts and images describing the anatomy, behavior, and habitats of over 1,000 animals from protists to primates.
How Animals Live
Author: Bernard Stonehouse
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780439548342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an overview of the characteristic behavior, habits, and survival skills of various types of animals around the world.
