Description: Enlivenment by Andreas Weber A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 techne 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.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 techne 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. Author Biography Andreas Weber is a Berlin-based philosopher, biologist, and writer. He is the author of The Biology of Wonder- Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science; Biopoetics- Towards an Existential Biology; Matter and Desire- An Erotic Ecology; and other books. He teaches philosophy at Leuphana University, L neburg, and the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. Details ISBN0262536668 Author Andreas Weber Pages 208 Publisher MIT Press Ltd Series Untimely Meditations Year 2019 ISBN-10 0262536668 ISBN-13 9780262536660 Format Paperback Imprint MIT Press Subtitle Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States DEWEY 113 Publication Date 2019-03-05 Language English Short Title Enlivenment Series Number 16 UK Release Date 2019-03-05 AU Release Date 2019-03-05 NZ Release Date 2019-03-05 US Release Date 2019-03-05 Alternative 9780262352284 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:120051450;
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