Full Description
This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is 'what is being human?', building on 'thinking language' and dialogical thinking, developing a poetological anthropology. It evokes political and social issues to demonstrate why poetics is of general relevance for our times. The chapters relate these questions to insights of quantum physics and neurosciences and discuss aspects of contemporary technology, media and medicine, employing notions such as atmospheres, immanent transcendence, silence and presence from contemporary thinkers. Poetic thinking considers the world in its togetherness, offering an alternative to the opposition of subject and object. It demonstrates the transformative power in the interaction of the form of language and the form of life. Poetic thinking takes place when a subject constitutes itself in creative and dialogical language, transforming its ways of feeling and thinking, in short, its way of perceiving the world.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Poetic thinking. Now
Today's physical worldview
Neuroscience
The question of the human
Embodied thinking against body technologies
Life science and form of life
Attitude, mood, atmosphere
Immanent transcendence, silence and presence
Thinking language
Dialogical thinking
The meaning and purpose of poetic thinking
Sources
Index