Jakob von Uexküll and Right Livelihood — the current actuality of his Weltanschauung
Jakob von Uexküll and Right Livelihood — the current actuality of his Weltanschauung

Summary/Abstract: I am humbled by your invitation for I can offer neither personal reminiscences — as I never met my grandfather — nor scientific expertise about his work. My school education in the natural sciences was very patchy. The teacher was a failed mining engineer whose chemistry lessons I remember only because he managed to set the classroom on fire. His knowledge of biology was even less impressive. So, while my grandfather stood out — from the descriptions of his widow and children — as a remarkably warm and fascinating human being, my attempts to understand him took much longer. When I first read his Theoretical Biology I felt I was entering a new and very complex world.

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