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Enlivenment: A New Poetics of the Anthropocene
Andreas Weber

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.

“The world is a place that constantly seeks to express its creative powers through a continuous interplay of meaningful relationships.”

From the publisher’s website: 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 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.”