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Biopoetics

Towards an Existential Ecology

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Authors:
  1. Andreas Weber

    1. und.Institut für Kunst Kultur und Zukunftsfähigkeit e.V., Berlin, Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Poiesis

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 1-10

  3. Subjectivity

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 11-24

  4. Expression

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 25-31

  5. Meaning

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 33-45

  6. Core Self

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 47-59

  7. Contradiction

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 61-70

  8. Words

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 71-82

  9. Transformation

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 83-93

  10. Flesh

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 95-105

  11. Objectivity

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 107-116

  12. Aliveness

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 117-124

  13. Poetic Space

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 125-134

  14. Conatus

    • Andreas Weber
    Pages 135-142

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 143-150
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Meaning, feeling and expression – the experience of inwardness – matter most in human existence. The perspective of biopoetics shows that this experience is shared by all organisms. Being alive means to exist through relations that have existential concern, and to express these dimensions through the body and its gestures. All life takes place within one poetic space which is shared between all beings and which is accessible through subjective sensual experience. We take part in this through our empirical subjectivity, which arises from the experiences and needs of living beings, and which makes them open to access and sharing in a poetic objectivity. Biopoetics breaks free from the causal-mechanic paradigm which made biology unable to account for mind and meaning. Biology becomes a science of expression, connection and subjectivity which can understand all organisms including humans as feeling agents in a shared ecology of meaningful relations, embedded in a symbolical and material metabolism of the biosphere.

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  • und.Institut für Kunst Kultur und Zukunftsfähigkeit e.V., Berlin, Germany

    Andreas Weber

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Andreas Weber, Und-Institut für Zukunftsfähigkeit, Sensburger Allee 30, 14055 Berlin, Germany

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