Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.
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| Acknoledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Between Ontology and Ethology | |
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| Jakob von Uexkull's Theories of Life | |
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| Biography and Historical Background | |
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| Nature's Conformity with Plan | |
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| Umweltforschung | |
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| Biosemiotics | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Marking a Path into the Environments of Animals | |
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| The Essential Approach to the Animal | |
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| Heidegger and the Biologists | |
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| Three Paths to the World | |
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| Disruptive Behavior: Heidegger and the Captivated Animal | |
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| The Worldless Stone | |
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| The Poor Animal | |
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| Three Bees and a Lark | |
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| Animal Morphology | |
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| A Shocking Wealth | |
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| A Fine Line in the Rupture of Time | |
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| An Affected Body | |
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| The Theme of the Animal Melody: Merleau-Ponty and the Umwelt | |
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| The Structure of Behavior | |
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| A pure Wake, A Quiet Force | |
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| A Leaf of Being | |
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| Interanimality | |
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| The-Animal-Stalks-at-Five-O'Clock: Deleuze's Affection for Uexkull | |
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| Problematic Organisms | |
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| Uexk�ll's Ethology of Affects | |
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| The Body without Organs, the Embryonic Egg, and Prebiotic Soup | |
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| Nature's Refrain Sung across Milieus and Territories | |
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| The Animal Stalks | |
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| Conclusion: Uexkull and Us | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
