Biopoetics Towards an Existential Ecology /

• Main Author: Weber, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Biosemiotics, 14
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Philosophy of nature.; Evolutionary biology.; Environmental health.; Philosophy of Nature.; Environmental Health.; Evolutionary Biology.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction: Enlivenment. Towards a poetic ecology
• 2.The desire for live
• 3.A machine which must die
• 4.Exploring the core self: From experience to expression
• 5.World inscape: Values without substance
• 6. Inside is outside: Exploring the poetic space
• 7.I am you: How interbeing creates identity
• 8.Symbiosis and wastefulness: Towards an ecology of the commons
• 9. Coming alife: Art as biopoetical self-creation
• 10.Enlivenment“: Organic expression and the poetics of the living
• 13. Bibliography, Indices, Glossary .