The biology of wonder
Subtitle: aliveness, feeling, and the metamorphosis of science
By: Andreas Weber
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780865717992
Subjects: Biology; Nature; Philosophy of nature; Philosophy; Life sciences; Emotions; Emotions (Philosophy); Human ecology; Life (Biology)
Other titles: Aliveness, feeling, and the metamorphosis of science
Work titles: Alles fühlt
Description: "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.
Notes: Translation of: Alles fühlt.

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