Enlivenment : toward a poetics for the anthropocene / Andreas Weber.

Main entry:

Weber, Andreas, 1967- author.

Title & Author:

Enlivenment : toward a poetics for the anthropocene / Andreas Weber.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

Description:

195 pages ; 18 cm.

Series:

Untimely meditations ; 16

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195).
Introduction : a poetics of the real -- The ideology of death -- Bioeconomics : the hidden megascience -- Biopoetics : desiring to be -- Natural anticapitalism : exchange as reciprocity -- Commons : inviting the other -- Poetic objectivity : understanding as being fully alive -- Culture : imagining the other.

Summary:

Résumé éditeur : "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 techné 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."

ISBN:

9780262536660 paperback alkaline paper
0262536668 paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Philosophy of nature.
Human ecology.
Philosophie de la nature.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.

Added entries:

Untimely meditations ; 16.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 304864
Call No.: BIB 250611
Status: Available

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