To outline his conception of living being as a subject of a closed world where it is perfectly “adapted”, the Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll constantly refers to Kant’s philosophy, according to which «reason has insight only into that which it produces after a plan of its own». Yet the Kantian transcendentalism also requires pure a priori structures, allowing the transfer from elementary sense-data to concepts, but such structures are not fully compatible with Uexküll’ environmental topology, which is dominated by the “language of the signs”. Instead the monadology of Leibniz seems more corresponding to this biosemiology, because it allows to reconcile the materiality of signs with the immateriality of their countless meanings. But this requires the introduction of an alien factor to the topology of Uexküll and perhaps present in Kant: the time as functor of the genetic identity or “genidentity”.
Luca Guidetti (2013). Jakob von Uexküll tra Kant e Leibniz. Dalla filosofia trascendentale alla topologia del vivente. RIVISTA ITALIANA DI FILOSOFIA DEL LINGUAGGIO, 7(2, 2013), 66-83 [10.4396/20130705].
Jakob von Uexküll tra Kant e Leibniz. Dalla filosofia trascendentale alla topologia del vivente
GUIDETTI, LUCA
2013
Abstract
To outline his conception of living being as a subject of a closed world where it is perfectly “adapted”, the Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll constantly refers to Kant’s philosophy, according to which «reason has insight only into that which it produces after a plan of its own». Yet the Kantian transcendentalism also requires pure a priori structures, allowing the transfer from elementary sense-data to concepts, but such structures are not fully compatible with Uexküll’ environmental topology, which is dominated by the “language of the signs”. Instead the monadology of Leibniz seems more corresponding to this biosemiology, because it allows to reconcile the materiality of signs with the immateriality of their countless meanings. But this requires the introduction of an alien factor to the topology of Uexküll and perhaps present in Kant: the time as functor of the genetic identity or “genidentity”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.