[Outdated doctrine, dead masters, disappeared names. A contribution to the problem of epigones by the example of Uexküll's "Umweltlehre"].
In 1964, the Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Hamburg was abolished finally. So anti-Darwinian biology disappeared from German universities at last. Its founder Jakob von Uexkiill had died in 1944, his biological concepts were proven outdated in the 1940s, too. His students were unable to establish a new anti-Darwinian biophilosophy, but went on in physiological research. They had a choice between changing sides or being doomed. Most of them decided for the latter way, except for Uexkiill's own son Thure, who modernized his fathers concepts and introduced them into psychosomatic medicine. But the other epigones were thrown out of biophilosophical discourses. Even when semiotic researchers re-founded Uexkiill's theories in 1970s, they were not invited to re-discuss their master's doctrine.
Institut für transkulturelle Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Frankfurt/Oder Viadrina. mildenberger1973@gmx.de
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