Andreas Weber (born 4 November 1967) is a German
biologist
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,
biosemiotician, philosopher and journalist.
Biography
Andreas Weber studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburg and Paris. He became a PhD in philosophy in 2003 with the thesis ''Natur als Bedeutung. Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen''. He has worked as a journalist for publications such as ''
Die Zeit
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History
The first edition of was ...
'', ''
GEO
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GEO or Geo may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''GEO'' (magazine), a popular scientific magazi ...
'', ''
Merian Merian may refer to
People with the surname
* Merian family, Swiss patrician family from Basel
* Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593–1650), Swiss-German engraver and publisher
* Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621–1687), Swiss painter
* Maria Siby ...
'' and ''
Greenpeace Magazin''. He lives in Berlin and Italy with his wife and two children.
In his monographs, such as ''Alles fühlt. Mensch, Natur und die Revolution der Lebenswissenschaften'' (2007), ''Biokapital. Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit'' (2008) and ''Lebendigkeit. Eine erotische Ökologie'' (2015), he promotes concepts such as sensation,
subjectivity
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and beauty as fundamental for interpreting the world.
[Michael Langer. 6 December 2015]
Musik und Fragen zur Person – Der Biologe und Philosoph Andreas Weber
Deutschlandfunk
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History
Broadcasting in t ...
Bibliography
* ''Natur als Bedeutung. Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen''. (PhD thesis), Würzburg 2003, .
* ''Alles fühlt. Mensch, Natur und die Revolution der Lebenswissenschaften.'' Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007 .
* ''Biokapital. Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit.'' Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, .
* ''Mehr Matsch! – Kinder brauchen Natur''. Ullstein, Berlin 2011, .
* ''Minima Animalia. Ein Stundenbuch der Natur''. thinkOya, Klein Jasedow 2012, .
* ''Das Quatsch-Matsch-Buch.'' Kösel, Munich 2013, .
* ''Lebendigkeit. Eine erotische Ökologie.'' Kösel, Munich 2014, .
* ''Enlivenment. Eine Kultur des Lebens. Versuch einer Poetik für das Anthropozän''. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, .
* ''Lebendigkeit sei! Für eine Politik des Lebens. Ein Manifest für das Anthropozän''. With Hildegard Kurt, thinkOya, Klein Jasedow 2015, .
* ''Sein und Teilen. Eine Praxis schöpferischer Existenz''. Transkript, Bielefeld 2017, .
; English or translated into English
*
Enlivenment. Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture and Politics'. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin 2013, .
* ''The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science''. New Society Publishers 2016, .
* ''Matter and Desire. An Erotic Ecology''. Chelsea Green, White River Junction 2017, .
* ''Enlivenment. Towards a Poetics for the Anthropocene''. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA / London 2019, .
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1967 births
Living people
German semioticians
20th-century German journalists
21st-century German journalists
German male journalists
21st-century German philosophers
Writers from Hamburg