Poetic Thinking. Now

<p>This book presents my concept of <i>poetic thinking</i> in the context of debates around the anthropological question that is ‘what is being human?’ building on ‘thinking language’ and dialogical thinking developing a <i>poetological anthropology</i>. 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 <i>atmospheres</i> <i>immanent transcendence</i> <i>silence</i> and <em>presence </em>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.</p>