Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
means "to make". This word, the root of our modern "poetry", was first a verb, an action that
transforms and continues the world.[citation needed] Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic
sense, poetic work reconciles thought with matter and time,[citation needed] and person with the world.[citation
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It is also used as a suffix, as in the biological term hematopoiesis, the formation of blood cells.
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how language can help cultivate (or make) a sense of dwelling on the earth. Zoopoetics explores
how animals (zoo) shape the making of a text.
In their 2011 academic book, All Things Shining, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly conclude
that embracing a "meta-poietic" mindset is the best, if not the only, method to authenticate meaning
in our secular times: "Meta-poiesis, as one might call it, steers between the twin dangers of the
secular age: it resists nihilism by reappropriating the sacred phenomenon of physis, but cultivates
the skill to resist physis in its abhorrent, fanatical form. Living well in our secular, nihilistic age,
therefore, requires the higher-order skill of recognizing when to rise up as one with the ecstatic
crowd and when to turn heel and walk rapidly away." [4]
Furthermore, Dreyfus and Dorrance Kelly urge each person to become a sort of "craftsman" whose
responsibility it is to refine their faculty for poiesis in order to achieve existential meaning in their
lives and to reconcile their bodies with whatever transcendence there is to be had in life itself: "The
task of the craftsman is not to generate the meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill
for discerning the meanings that are already there."[5]