Concept
Ontopoetics
Overview
Ontopoetics is a philosophical concept that involves the communicative engagement of self with the world and the world with the self. It is also described as a "poetic order" that unfolds alongside the "causal order" in the process of the communicative engagement with reality and participating in it. It includes the perception of cues or signals, or the expression of actors, as well as "the construction of impressions on re-actors by the deliberate choice of attractive signifiers that communicate factual or illusory realities".
Ontopoetics is not considered a theory but a view of reality and an understanding of the world as a communicative presence.
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Cause and effect thus constitute the whole nature of matter; its true being _is_ its action. The totality of everything material is therefore very appropriately called in German _Wirklichkeit_ (actuality)--a word which is far more expressive than _Realität_ (reality).[2] That upon which actuality acts is…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
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In short, we have the types of meaning embodied in language in the form of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is through this preliminary formative activity of thought that reflective or _logical_ thought has presented to it a world of meanings ranged in an order of relative independence and dependence, and arranged as elements in a complex of meanings whose various constituent parts mutually influence one another's…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
Close in meaning to Ontopoetics; the term itself is not named.
Why is it that Homer sketches much more vividly[7] than all the other poets? Because he contemplates[8] much more. We talk so abstractly about poetry, because we are all wont to be bad poets.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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Philosophers who discussed Ontopoetics
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gilles Deleuze
- Philosophy
- Paradigm
- Ontology
- Physics
- René Descartes
- Martin Heidegger
- Reality
- Atomism
- Panpsychism
- Freya Mathews
Place in the tradition
Part of Panpsychism.