Overview
- Explains why Biology like Quantum Physics has become a Science of Subjectivity and Connection
- Nonreductionist account explains why embodiment is the source of artistic expression, creativity, and paradox
- Narrated passages transcend technical philosophical arguments and let the reader understand intuitively
- Solution to the Mind-Body-Problem and to Dualism without being simplistic or reductionist
- Helps Anthropocene thinking by providing a framework to understand how human and biological subjectivity stem from the same source
- Makes biology a scientific practice of the heart and of personal concern and connection again
- Explains why mind and life are coextensive
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 14)
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Book Title: Biopoetics
Book Subtitle: Towards an Existential Ecology
Authors: Andreas Weber
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0832-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0830-0Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1413-4Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0832-4Published: 01 September 2016
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 150
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Environmental Health, Aesthetics, Evolutionary Biology