Uexküll’s Kompositionslehre and Leopold’s “land ethic” in dialogue. On the concept of meaning
Uexküll’s Kompositionslehre and Leopold’s “land ethic” in dialogue. On the concept of meaning

Summary/Abstract: Uexküll’s famous umwelt theory, which is simultaneously a theory of meaning, remains almost unknown in American environmental thought. Th e purpose of this article is to create a dialogue between the umwelt theory – a source of inspiration for biosemiotics – and one of the major fi gures of the environmental thought, namely Aldo Leopold. Th e interest of this dialogue lies in the fact that the environmental thought has much to gain by relying on Uexküll’s theory of meaning and, conversely, that Leopold’s land ethic is likely to extend Uexküll’s thought in terms of ethics.

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