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| ISBN: | 0262536668 (ISBN13: 9780262536660) |
Andreas Weber
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 4.17 | 18 Users | 2 Reviews
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| Title | : | Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene |
| Author | : | Andreas Weber |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | March 5th 2019 by MIT Press (first published 2016) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Environment. Green |
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A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control nature but that humans and nature exist in a commons of mutual transformation. There is no nature-human dualism, he contends, because the fundamental dimension of existence is shared in what he calls aliveness. All subjectivity is intersubjectivity. Self is self-through-other. Seeing all beings in a common household of matter, desire, and imagination, an economy of metabolic and economic transformation, is "enlivenment." This perspective allows us to move beyond Enlightenment-style thinking that strips material reality of any subjectivity.
To take this step, Weber argues, we need to supplant the concept of techn� with the concept of poiesis as the element that brings forth reality. In a world not divided into things and ideas, culture and nature, reality arises from the creation of relationships and continuous fertile transformations; any thinking in terms of relationships comes about as a poetics. The self is always a function of the whole; the whole is equally a function of the individual. Only this integrated freedom allows humanity to reconcile with the natural world.
This first English edition of Enlivenment has been expanded and updated from the German edition.
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Andreas Weber is a Berlin-based philosopher, biologist, and writer. He holds degrees in marine biology and cultural studies, and has collaborated with brain researcher and philosopher Francisco Varela. His books in English include: Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture and Politics (2013); The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis ofAndreas Weber has already shown an important step forward in the structure of science with The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science. Now he shows how such an attitude towards knowledge and life might allow us to restructure the human presence on Earth before we find our societies lost and dead. This book contains an excellent analysis of the rise of capitalist economics and neo-Darwinian concepts of evolution and how both have supported each other in creating
Andreas Weber has already shown an important step forward in the structure of science with The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science. Now he shows how such an attitude towards knowledge and life might allow us to restructure the human presence on Earth before we find our societies lost and dead. This book contains an excellent analysis of the rise of capitalist economics and neo-Darwinian concepts of evolution and how both have supported each other in creating
Really wanted to like this book! There were some beautiful insights, and I can definitely get behind Webbers goal, but really struggled to follow his line of thought for most of it :/
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