The biology of wonder : aliveness, feeling, and the metamorphosis of science

Zusammenfassung: "What is life? In The Biology of Wonder, scientist Andreas Weber reframes this fundamental enigma by arguing that all living beings, like humans, are not biological machines, but living, creative agents fueled by meaning and expression. Weber proposes a new approach--the development of a "poetic ecology"--Which intimately attaches our species to every being and underpins the entire range of human experience. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being superfluous to the study of organisms, are the very foundation of life. The schism between us and the natural world is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. Until we come to terms with the depths of our alienation, we will fail to understand that what happens to nature also happens to us"--Back cover.

Alternative title
Alles fühlt
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9780865717992
0865717990
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvi, 367 Seiten
Language
Englisch
Notes
Lizenz des Autors Andreas Weber, Berlin

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Biologie
Naturphilosophie
Biophilosophie

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Gabriola Island
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New Society Publishers
(when)
[2016]
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Table of contents
Foreword by David Abram -- Introduction: towards a poetic ecology. Part 1 Cells with aspirations : The desire for life -- The machine that can die -- The physics of creation. Part 2 The language of feeling : World inscape -- Affective neuroscience: mind as symbol of the body. Part 3 I am thou : The question in the eyes of the wolf -- Learning to think: mirroring the other. Part 4 Life as art : Melody of the soul -- The principle of beauty. Part 5 Symbioses : The body of the sea -- Not one, but all -- The silvery sea. Part 6 Healing : Ethics: the values of the flesh -- Enlivenment: ecological morals as mutuality in beauty. Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Index -- About the author.
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