Jakob von uexküll: An introduction

Semiotica

Volumn 134, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-59

  Kull, Kalevi ^a,b  

^a Department of Semiotics ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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EID: 34547527759     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.2001.013     Document Type: Review

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1. E.g., in finding out the 'cognitive maps' of organisms and the mechanisms creating them.
2. Later, Uexkiill prefers to use the term Zielstrebigkeit (directedness). This is probably due to his reading of Karl Ernst von Baer's works, who made a clear distiction between Zweckmässigkeit and Zielstrebigkeit (Baer 1864).
3. In some cases (e.g., Uexkiill 1913a: 143), he also calls it 'subjective biology': 'Es ist dies eine neue Wissenschaft, die noch niemals systematisch in Angriff genommen worden ist. Wir wollen sie die "subjektive Biologie" nennen'.
4. Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1847).
5. In the preface to Uexküll's book Bausteine ..., Felix Gross wrote about two views - psychism and materialism. And added (Gross 1913: 10): 'Die Zukunft wird uns aber noch eine dritte bringen. In ihr wird die Herrschaft der beiden Urphänomene des Physischen und Psychischen verschwinden und statt dessen das Phänomen des Lebens eine zentrale Stellung einnehmen'.
6. The relatedness of this Uexküll's principle to Redi's principle omne vivum e vivo, Schleiden's omnis cellula e cellula, and Peirce's omne symbolum e symbolo is obvious.
7. See a detailed account of how Uexküll has been found by him in Sebeok (1998: 31-35).
8. I want to thank Thomas A. Sebeok and June Solomon for their invaluable work and support in preparing this issue.
9. Many people have helped to compile these bibliographies or made useful remarks: Paul Bains, Oliver Botar, Sabine Brauckmann, Brunhilde Krüger, Kari Lagerspetz, Tiit Matsulevich, Ilya Outechin, Joe Pryce, Thomas A. Sebeok, Urmas Sutrop, Toomas Trapido, and Thure von Uexküll.
10. The abbreviation 'U.' for Jakob von Uexküll is used in the annotations.
11. The list also includes all references cited in the current article.