Conscious Objection

Peter Godfrey-Smith does well to take a closer look at the reception of Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory in recent books by Jackie Higgins and Ed Yong [“Visible and Invisible Worlds,” NYR, June 6], but like much recent critical engagement with Uexküll, his article decontexualizes the theory’s significance from his larger theory of meaning, which […]