Friday 12 June 2015

"Umwelt ethics" cited in Deely article on environment, Umwelt, Lebenswelt

My article "Umwelt ethics" (2003, PDF available online) is cited in John Deely´s 2014 article "Semiotic entanglement: The concepts of environment, Umwelt, and Lebenswelt in semiotic perspective" (Semiotica 199: 7–42). The citation occurs on p. 21.

Excerpt:
Heidegger proceeds to an analysis of Sein that is breathtaking in its scope, for he does not at all omit the cathectic dimension from his sweep, and presents us with a notion of Dasein so much more profound than the classical and medieval "rational animal" as to awaken us to the full depths of human culture in its amalgamation and dependence upon, even though irreducible to, the zoösemiosis constructive of the Umwelt, and to the human person as itself a part of nature, even if a species-specifically distinctive transcendent part thanks to the exaptation of linguistic communication (cf. Tønnessen 2003: 287; Kull and Nöth 2001: 283).

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