LEADER 05191nam 22006375 450 001 9910503009103321 005 20230810172441.0 010 $a3-030-67810-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-67810-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000012024538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6721767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6721767 035 $a(OCoLC)1267763083 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-67810-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012024538 100 $a20210907d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAdolf Portmann $eA Thinker of Self-Expressive Life /$fedited by Filip Jaro?, Ji?í Klouda 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 225 1 $aBiosemiotics,$x1875-466X ;$v23 311 $a3-030-67809-1 327 $aIntroduction. Part1. Paving a Path to the New Biology: Chapter1. New Fronts of Biological Work -- Chapter2. The Language of Nature Reread -- Part2. Biology, Biosemiotics, Anthropology. Chapter 3. The Researcher and the Teacher -- Chapter4. Novel Ecological Mismatches in the Light of Jakob von Uexküll?s and Adolf Portmann?s Works -- Chapter5. Revisiting Basal Anthropology: A Developmental Approach to Human Evolution and Sociality -- Chapter6. Portmann?s View on Anthropological Difference -- Part3. Philosophical Aspects of Portmann?s Work: Chapter7. Portmann, Goethe and Modern Biology: Two and a Half Ways of Looking at Nature -- Chapter 8. Playing Appearances: On Some Aspects of Portmann?s Contribution to Philosophical Aesthetics -- Chapter9. Ptolemaic Man and Copernican Man: In Favor of ?Depth Anthropology -- Chapter 10. The ?New Morphology? Between Biology and Philosophy: The Hermeneutic Dimension of Portmann?s Thought -- Part4. Historical Context and Later Reception: Chapter11. The Beauty of Organisms: Biological Aesthetics Between Portmann and Darwin -- Chapter 12. On the Brink of the Expressible: Adolf Portmann Meets Carl Gustav Jung on Eranos Ground -- Chapter 13. The Czech Reception of Portmann. 330 $aThis edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann?s theoretical approach to the phenomenon of life, characterized by terms such as ?inwardness? and ?self-presentation.? Portmann?s concepts of secondary altriciality and the social uterus have become foundational in philosophical anthropology, providing a benchmark of the difference between humans and animals. In its content, this book brings together two approaches: historical and philosophical analysis of Portmann?s studies in the life sciences and application of Portmann?s thought in the fields of biology, anthropology, and biosemiotics. Significant attention is also paid to the methodological implications of his intended reform of biology. Besides contributions from contemporary biologists, philosophers, and historians of science, this volume also includes a translation of an original essay by Portmann and a previously unpublished manuscript from his most remarkable English-speaking interpreter, philosopher Marjorie Grene. Portmann?s conception of life is unique in its focus on the phenomenal appearance of organisms. Confronted with the enormous amount of scientific knowledge being produced today, it is even clearer than it was during Portmann?s lifetime that although biologists employ physical and chemical methods, biology itself is not (only) physics and chemistry. These exact methods must be applied according to what has meaning for living beings. If biology seeks to understand organisms as autonomous agents, it needs to take display and the interpretation of appearances as basic characteristics of life. The topic of this book is significantly relevant to the disciplines of theoretical biology, philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and biosemiotics. The recent epigenetic turn in biology, acknowledging the interconnections between organismal development, morphology and communication, presents an opportunity to revisit Portmann?s work and to reconsider and update his primary ideas in the contemporary context. 410 0$aBiosemiotics,$x1875-466X ;$v23 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aHistory of Philosophy 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aSemiotics. 615 24$aPhilosophy. 615 24$aHistory of Philosophy. 676 $a570.1 700 $aJaros$b Filip$0853596 702 $aKlouda$b Jir?i? 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910503009103321 996 $aAdolf Portmann$92557166 997 $aUNINA