Abstract

Enlivenment is a term proposed by the contemporary German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber, whose work follows on from the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory. The term notably features in two of Weber’s works: the first, co-authored with fellow German philosopher Hildegard KurtKurt, Lebendigkeit sei! Für eine Politik des Lebens. Ein Manifest für das Anthropozän (2015) (Towards Cultures of Aliveness: Politics and Poetics in a Postdualistic Age – an Anthropocene Manifesto), and the second, Enlivenment. Eine Kultur des Lebens. Versuch einer Poetik für das Anthropozän (2016) (Enlivenment. Towards a Poetics for the Anthropocene).