Jörg-Andreas Weber Livres

Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises. The author Andreas Weber gives us a glimpse of the different scientific paradigm now coming into focus. He calls it “Enlivenment,” because the new sciences are revealing organisms to be sentient, more-than-physical creatures that have subjective experiences and produce sense. Weber sees Enlivenment as an upgrade of the deficient categories of Enlightenment thought – a way to move beyond our modern metaphysics of dead matter and acknowledge the deeply creative processes embodied in all living organisms. The framework of Enlivenment that Weber outlines is a promising beginning for all those who stand ready to search for real solutions to the challenges of our future.

What is life? In The Biology of Wonder , scientist Andreas Weber resolves this fundamental enigma, arguing that humans, like all living beings, are creative, evolutionary forces who cannot exist apart from nature.

Emphasizing the transformative impact of digitalization, the author encourages managers and business leaders to adapt to rapid changes by fostering collaboration within their teams. The book explores necessary shifts in corporate culture and hierarchies to thrive in digital workspaces and evolving value chains. It addresses critical issues such as data management, customer relations, and international collaboration, making it particularly relevant for managers in manufacturing industries and similar sectors.

The exploration of inwardness and existential relations is central to understanding human existence and is extended to all organisms through the lens of biopoetics. This perspective emphasizes that life is an interconnected experience, where expression and gestures reveal deeper meanings. It challenges traditional biological views by framing biology as a study of expression and subjectivity, highlighting the shared poetic space among living beings. By recognizing organisms as feeling agents within a meaningful ecological context, biopoetics fosters a holistic understanding of life and its intricate connections.

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.

In his nature images Frank Darius transforms the world into most delicate poetical structures. What nature really is, such is the question Darius is after. His works contend themselves with the smallest moments of living forms. Many of them show how twigs, leaves and fragile organic meshworks are nearly extirpated by snow, water and fog - and at the same time come to a higher live through this process. With his radically sincere imagery Darius makes us understand that the whole world is an inside, an inner space endlessly unfolding as a poetic process. The observer realizes: We are also deeply a part of this animated world - and at the same time the real world reveals itself as our own inside. This attitude comes to terms with the postmodern obsession with the fact that there is no "real" reality and we are always seperated and lost. Rather, we can understand reality, because we are alife. 0Exhibition: Alfred-Ehrardt-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany (23.3.-19.5.2013).

In this work we derive upper Gaussian bounds for the heat kernel on locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type. Furthermore, we determine explicitly the Lp-spectrum of locally symmetric spaces M whose universal covering is a rank one symmetric space of non-compact type if either the fundamental group of M is small (in a certain sense) or if the fundamental group is arithmetic and M is non-compact.

Andreas Weber v této průkopnické práci ukazuje, že živé bytosti nejsou pouhé biologické stroje, ale stejně jako lidé jsou živými, tvůrčími subjekty poháněné smyslem a výrazem.Navrhuje nový přístup – „poetickou ekologii“ -, která náš druh úzce spojuje s každou bytostí a je základem celé škály lidských zkušeností. Tvrdí, že pocity a emoce zdaleka nejsou pro studium organismů zbytečné, ale že jsou samotným základem života. Rozkol mezi námi a přírodou je pravděpodobně hlavní příčinou většiny ekologických katastrof, které se kolem nás odehrávají. Dokud se nevyrovnáme s hloubkou našeho odcizení, nepochopíme, že to, co se děje přírodě, se děje i nám.Práce ukazuje, že naše spojení s dynamickou sítí vzájemně propojených vztahů na Zemi je základem celé škály lidských zkušeností, dává vzniknout novému ekologickému étosu a ukazuje, že subjektivita a představivost jsou předpokladem biologické existence.