This proposition was created during the first WorldEthicForum strategy weekend on October 2 and 3, 2021 in Scharans (Grisons, Switzerland) based on a proposal by Andreas Weber and in collaboration with Martin Otto. If you identify with these or similar principles and want to contribute to the revitalizing transformation of our world, you are cordially invited to participate in the WorldEthicForum. Translated by Alena Malíková and Jiří Zemánek. Principles and initial challenge of the WorldEthicForum …
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He Feels Everything: On the Erotic Ecology of Andreas Weber
Here we bring the text of the lecture by Luďek ČERTÍK, which he delivered at the fifth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature "Everything around me lives, feels, as I do - paths to a regenerative culture" at the Rychleby Ecocenter on August 12, 2020. In it, he presents the ideas of the leading contemporary German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber, his concept of revival, or rather erotic ecology, which he places in the broader context of the development of biological thinking and...
A Manifesto of Revival: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
Andreas Weber (1967) is a German biologist, philosopher, biosemiotician and journalist. As an independent scientist, he explores a new understanding of life as meaning, or “biopoetics” (“poetic ecology”). See more of Weber’s texts on the Pilgrim website. Hildegarda Kurt (1958) is a German cultural researcher, associate professor of social sculpture, founder and director of the Institute for Art, Culture and the Future in Berlin (2004). For many years, she has collaborated with a student…
Andreas Weber: Being Nature
German biologist and ecophilosopher Andreas Weber is today coming up with a radically new understanding of life, one that reconnects our human species with the more than human world of the biosphere. His concept of “poetic ecology” or “biopoetics” is based on the idea that the basis of life is feeling and emotion, that subjectivity and imagination are necessary prerequisites for biological functioning itself. To be alive, to participate…
Andreas Weber: Revival or What is life and what role do we play in it?
“In order to protect the biosphere, we must focus our activities on the image of living reality.” Andreas WEBER Andreas WEBER (1967) is an outstanding German biologist, philosopher, biosemiotician and publicist. He studied marine biology and cultural studies and collaborated with the prominent theoretical biologist Vrancesco Varela in Paris. As an independent scientist, he explores a new understanding of life as meaning, or “biopoetics,” within the framework of science and art; he looks…