Abiding “Abiding” is a collection of poems prefaced by a personal ars poetica, or treatise on poetics, titled “Poetic Dwelling: Making Manifest Being-in-the-World.” This piece explores the essay, “The Question Concerning Technology,” written by the German philosopher and phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. The essay, which was adapted from a 1953 lecture to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, explicates three ways in which Sein or Being, is made manifest in the world. One of these modes is via poiêsis. Poiêsis, broadly defined, is a thing made or done that is aimed at some end (telos). Aristotle, Heidegger tells us, also defined poiêsis simply as a poem. In his later works, like the above mentioned essay, Heidegger began to focus heavily on poetry and its relationship to Sein. He often did so through the lens of the work of Friedrich Hölderin (1770-1848), the German lyric poet known to have been friendly in his lifetime with the father of phenomenology, Friedrich Hegel. It is from a line of Hölderin’s poetry, often quoted in Heidegger’s work, that the title of the ars poetica is drawn: “Poetically man dwells upon this earth.” In “Poetic Dwelling: Making Manifest Being-in-the-World,” the author uses “The Question Concerning Technology” as her starting point for exploring the relationship between philosophy and poetry in her own work. Trained in both disciplines, the author demonstrates how the two fields are deeply interconnected, creating a kind of mirror which is constantly reflecting back on the other. This reflexive quality is carried through into the poems themselves which often undertake—both explicitly and implicitly—philosophical questions. Included in these are inquiries into epistemology or ways of knowing, the existential nature of experience, and ethics or value theory, as well as references to the work of individual philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt. English
Abiding
“Abiding” is a collection of poems prefaced by a personal ars poetica, or treatise on poetics, titled “Poetic Dwelling: Making Manifest Being-in-the-World.” This piece explores the essay, “The Question Concerning Technology,” written by the German philosopher and phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. The essay, which was adapted from a 1953 lecture to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, explicates three ways in which Sein or Being, is made manifest in the world. One of these modes is via poiêsis. Poiêsis, broadly defined, is a thing made or done that is aimed at some end (telos). Aristotle, Heidegger tells us, also defined poiêsis simply as a poem. In his later works, like the above mentioned essay, Heidegger began to focus heavily on poetry and its relationship to Sein. He often did so through the lens of the work of Friedrich Hölderin (1770-1848), the German lyric poet known to have been friendly in his lifetime with the father of phenomenology, Friedrich Hegel. It is from a line of Hölderin’s poetry, often quoted in Heidegger’s work, that the title of the ars poetica is drawn: “Poetically man dwells upon this earth.” In “Poetic Dwelling: Making Manifest Being-in-the-World,” the author uses “The Question Concerning Technology” as her starting point for exploring the relationship between philosophy and poetry in her own work. Trained in both disciplines, the author demonstrates how the two fields are deeply interconnected, creating a kind of mirror which is constantly reflecting back on the other. This reflexive quality is carried through into the poems themselves which often undertake—both explicitly and implicitly—philosophical questions. Included in these are inquiries into epistemology or ways of knowing, the existential nature of experience, and ethics or value theory, as well as references to the work of individual philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt.
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