has written a practical guide to recall and activate our capacity for judgment-and exactly in this heartfelt invitation for us to use our capacity to judge rests its explosive power.-Volkmar Mhleis, Deutschlandfunk In this beautiful, brilliant, and moving study, Eshel calls attention to poetic thinking as indispensable to understanding the human condition and especially to the challenge of defining freedom without limitations. Poetic Thinking alerts us to the relevance of our capacity to judge for both art and morality. Eshels assiduous research, sensitive readings, and light touch of self-reflection make for a moving, inspiring essay: a testament to the enduring relevance of thinking as freedom, of art as resistance.-Lital Levy, Princeton University Even if knowledge is power, the capacity to judge cannot be entirely subsumed by power but offers a way out of our current dilemmas. Review Quotes Poetic Thinking Today should be required reading for defenders of the humanities in our current political moment. 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.
In an era characterized by the global reemergence of authoritarian tendencies, Amir Eshel writes with the future of the humanities in mind. They express the uninhibited thoughts and ideas of their creators even as they foster poetic thinking in us. All the contemporary works of art and literature that Poetic Thinking Today examines touch on our recent experiences with tyranny in culture and politics. 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. 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. Book Synopsis Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. About the Book This book makes a case for the acknowledgment and cultivation of poetic thinking-the kind of thinking we find in literature and the arts-for their uninhibited wisdom is vital for the protection of our social, political, and cultural freedom.
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