{"product_id":"enlivenment-toward-a-poetics-for-the-anthropocene-9780262536660","title":"Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In \u003ci\u003eEnlivenment\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo take this step, Weber argues, we need to supplant the concept of \u003ci\u003etechné \u003c\/i\u003ewith the concept of \u003ci\u003epoiesis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first English edition of \u003ci\u003eEnlivenment\u003c\/i\u003e has been expanded and updated from the German edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16607342\"\u003eAndreas Weber\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262536660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262536668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-NAT\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-NAT010000\"\u003eEcology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SCI\"\u003eScience\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SCI015000\"\u003eSpace Science | Cosmology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Weber is a Berlin-based philosopher, biologist, and writer. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBiopoetics: Towards an Existential Biology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMatter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e; and other books. He teaches philosophy at Leuphana University, L?neburg, and the University of Fine Arts, Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48107515478253,"sku":"9780262536660","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_249699b4-1a66-4875-b6b5-e7a063074d2a.jpg?v=1747546324","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/enlivenment-toward-a-poetics-for-the-anthropocene-9780262536660","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}