Jakob von Uexküll and Viktor von Weizsäcker are the example of two different addresses of the life’s sciences thinking in the twentieth century. Uexküll’s theoretical biology aims at the understanding of the functions of the organic body, and considers the morphology as a descriptive science, whose contribution to modern biology would be somewhat a limited and methodologically uncertain one. For its part, Weizsäcker’s “Gestaltkreis”-theory develops as an innovative lexicon of the contemporary morphology, focusing on the unity of the living being, configured on the basis of his anatomy.
Between Uexküll and Weizsäcker: the Criticism of Functionalism and the Configuration of the Biological Act
D'AGATA, Valeria Costanza
2013-01-01
Abstract
Jakob von Uexküll and Viktor von Weizsäcker are the example of two different addresses of the life’s sciences thinking in the twentieth century. Uexküll’s theoretical biology aims at the understanding of the functions of the organic body, and considers the morphology as a descriptive science, whose contribution to modern biology would be somewhat a limited and methodologically uncertain one. For its part, Weizsäcker’s “Gestaltkreis”-theory develops as an innovative lexicon of the contemporary morphology, focusing on the unity of the living being, configured on the basis of his anatomy.File in questo prodotto:
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