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ReviewAnthropocene sounds cold: a humansonly world, dark and selfcentered. Enlivenment is warm: a way to remain true to the wildfires that set humanity forth to celebrate this world. Bravo to Andreas Weber for daring to show us how to live in these fearful times.David Rothenberg, author of Nightingales in Berlin and Survival of the BeautifulProduct DescriptionA 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 naturehuman dualism, he contends, because the fundamental dimension of existence is shared in what he calls 'aliveness.' All subjectivity is intersubjectivity. Self is selfthroughother. 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 Enlightenmentstyle 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.About the AuthorAndreas Weber is a Berlinbased 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, Lneburg, and the University of Fine Arts, Berlin.
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