📗 Libro en inglés THE BIOLOGY OF WONDER

A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his graceful prose Publishers Weekly The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today This schism is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us 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 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 prerequisites of biological existence Written by a leader in the emerging fields of biopoetics and biosemiotics 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 b