Andreas Weber - Böcker

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.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.” This perspective allows us to move beyond Enlightenment-style thinking that strips material reality of any subjectivity.To take this step, Weber argues, we need to supplant the concept of techné with the concept of poiesis as the element that brings forth reality. In a world not divided into things and ideas, culture and nature, reality arises from the creation of relationships and continuous fertile transformations; any thinking in terms of relationships comes about as a poetics. The self is always a function of the whole; the whole is equally a function of the individual. Only this integrated freedom allows humanity to reconcile with the natural world.This first English edition of Enlivenment has been expanded and updated from the German edition.

The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. The schism between us and the natural world is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. However, until we come to terms with the depths of our alienation, we will continue to fail to understand that what happens to nature also happens to us. In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being superfluous to the study of organisms, are the very foundation of life. From this basic premise flows the development of a "poetic ecology" which intimately connects our species to everything that surrounds us--showing that subjectivity and imagination are prerequisits of biological existence. The Biology of Wonder demonstrates that there is no separation between us and the world we inhabit, and in so doing it validates the essence of our deep experience.By reconciling science with meaning, expression and emotion, this landmark work brings us to a crucial understanding of our place in the rich and diverse framework of life-a revolution for biology as groundbreaking as the theory of relativity for physics. Dr. Andreas Weber is a German academic, scholar and author. He is a leader in the emerging fields of "biopoetics" and "biosemiotics," and his work has been translated into several languages and published around the globe.

Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment  In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process—constantly transforming the self through contact with others, desiring ever more life.In clever and surprising ways, Weber recognizes that love—the impulse to establish connections, to intermingle, to weave our existence poetically together with that of other beings—is a foundational principle of reality. The fact that we disregard this principle lies at the core of a global crisis of meaning that plays out in the avalanche of species loss and in our belief that the world is a dead mechanism controlled through economic efficiency.Although rooted in scientific observation, Matter and Desire becomes a tender philosophy for the Anthropocene, a “poetic materialism,” that closes the gap between mind and matter. Ultimately, Weber discovers, in order to save life on Earth—and our own meaningful existence as human beings—we must learn to love.

Digitalization is the greatest change project that we have ever known, and data is circulating in unimaginable quantities and at unimaginable speed. In this book, the author urges managers and business leaders to embrace this constant state of change in cooperation with their team.

Digitalization is the greatest change project that we have ever known, and data is circulating in unimaginable quantities and at unimaginable speed. In this book, the author urges managers and business leaders to embrace this constant state of change in cooperation with their team.

Diese Einführung in die Informatik konzentriert sich insbesondere auf die moderne objektorientierte Softwaretechnik. Die zentralen Konzepte von objektorientierten Programmiersprachen, nämlich Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen, werden dabei nicht nur abstrakt beschrieben und theoretisch begründet, sondern auch mittels UML und Java 2 konkret umgesetzt und intensiv eingeübt. Am Ende kennt der Leser neben dem klassischen auch den modernen objektorientierten Stoff der Informatik auf dem Niveau des ersten Studienjahres und beherrscht mit Java zudem eine Programmiersprache, die in der breiten Praxis von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft vielfältige Anwendungen findet. Die Darstellung wird durch ergänzende Kapitel zu wesentlichen mathematischen Grundlagen und zur Hardware- und Software-Architektur von Computersystemen abgerundet. Ferner ist unter der URL www-sr.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/InfoBuch eine Web-Seite zu diesem Buch eingerichtet worden.

Andreas Weber vermittelt  Unternehmern und Managern die überlebenswichtige Facette der Digitalisierung mithilfe eines selbst entwickelten Modells. In dessen Mittelpunkt steht der Mensch: der Kunde im Fokus einer veränderten Wertschöpfungskette, die Mitarbeiter mit Ihrem Engagement, ihrer Kreativität und Wandlungsfähigkeit und last not least die Führungskräfte als deren Vorbilder und Befähiger sowie als strategische Pioniere. Daten sind der Treibstoff, ihre Integration ist das Geschäft. Nur eine kundenzentrierte Supply Chain ermöglicht unternehmerisches Wachstum und garantiert den unternehmerischen Fortbestand. Ansprechende Grafiken erläutern die eingängige Darstellung Schritt für Schritt. Sie eröffnet dem Leser den Ausblick auf die kommenden fünf Jahre, in denen sich entscheidet, wer am Markt überlebt. Das Buch ist Weckruf und Ansporn, endlich digital zu handeln, um den Unternehmenserfolg zu sichern und zu steigern.

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.