Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-022-00518-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-022-00518-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00518-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40656-022-00518-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference

Original language description

This paper focuses on the links between Jakob von Uexküll’s theoretical biology and Adolf Portmann’s conception of organic life. Its main purpose is to show that Uexküll and Portmann not only share a view of the living being as an autonomous and holistically organized entity, but also base this view on the seminal idea of the subjectivity of the organism. In other words, the respective holistic principles securing the autonomy of the living being—the Bauplan, for Uexküll; the Innerlichkeit, for Portmann—share an essentially subjective character. Such principles, indeed, express themselves in a centrally directed and formative way; moreover, in organisms endowed with a central nervous system, they also extend their influence on the overt behavioral sphere and on the organism’s capacity to give meaning to the surrounding reality. The conclusion of the article will show how, though starting from this common background, the two authors develop divergent positions on the issue of the anthropological difference. If Portmann emphasizes the special status of the relationship between the human animal and the world, Uexküll tends to see a substantial continuity in the biosemiotic processes through which human and non-human animals constitute their species-specific worlds of experience.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-11571S" target="_blank" >GA19-11571S: Adolf Portmann: a pioneer of the eidetic and semiotic approach in the philosophy of the life sciences</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

ISSN

0391-9714

e-ISSN

1742-6316

Volume of the periodical

44

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

"Article number: 36"

UT code for WoS article

000838080800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135709202