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Wprowadzenie

“A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans” appeared in 1934 in the popular series “Verständliche Wissenschaft”, with drawings by Georg Kriszat; its subtitle calls it “a picture book of invisible worlds”. Written for a general readership, it leads through the Umwelten of the tick, the fly, the sea urchin, the dog, the jackdaw and others, showing how the same room or the same oak tree appears differently to each creature. Paired illustrations set the human view of a scene beside the selective world of an animal. Uexküll explains perceptual time and space, the “search image” and the familiar path, and ends with the subjective worlds of humans, including that of the astronomer. The book became his most widely read text, translated into English in 1957 and again in 2010, and is the main source of the reception by Deleuze and Agamben.

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