Reviews

The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science by Andreas Weber

andrewbenesh1's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

emusing's review against another edition

It was really interesting but it was just too dense for me as a layman to get very far in.

gnome_friend's review against another edition

5.0

This book is a phenomenal synthesis of biology and philosophy into a new frame for our understanding of life and experience. As children we are all captivated by curiosity about everything we perceive. Our experiences are driven by and made of powerful emotions. Modern western science and philosophy tell us to ignore this emotional experience in favor of mechanistic objectivity. This book aims to reintroduce the living roots of our curiosities into deadened disciplines, and succeeds wonderfully. It takes recent findings in psychology, ecology, and evolutionary theory and transforms them into poetry. While I agree with David Abram in the forward that the book is too harsh on Charles Darwin the person, it otherwise provides a wonderful basis for critiquing western society and its perception of knowledge.
I would say this is essential reading for any student of biology or philosophy.