Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities) - Hardcover

Eshel, Amir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1503608875 ISBN 13: 9781503608870

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical comprehension of our personal and natural circumstances, thinking may take the form of a poem, a painting, a sculpture, a museum exhibition, or a documentary film. Exploring a variety of works by contemporary artists and writers who exemplify poetic thinking, this book draws our attention to one of the crucial affordances of this form of creative human insight and wisdom: its capacity to help protect and cultivate human freedom. All the contemporary works of art and literature that Poetic Thinking Today examines touch on our recent experiences with tyranny in culture and politics. They express the uninhibited thoughts and ideas of their creators even as they foster poetic thinking in us. In an era characterized by the global reemergence of authoritarian tendencies, Amir Eshel writes with the future of the humanities in mind. He urges the acknowledgment and cultivation of poetic thinking as a crucial component of our intellectual pursuits in general and of our educational systems more specifically.

About this title

About the Author

Amir Eshel is Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1503608875
• ISBN 13: 9781503608870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240