Marko Pajević took up an EU funded Professorship of German Studies at the University of Tartu in January 2018 after holding positions at the Sorbonne, Paris IV and Queen’s University Belfast, as well as Royal Holloway and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely in German, English and French on poetics, with (co-)edited volumes on Paul Celan, multilingualism and the political, German and European poetics after the Holocaust and on the connection between poetry and musicality. He wrote monographs on Paul Celan and Franz Kafka. At the heart of his work stands the development of a poetological anthropology, as presented most prominently in a German-language monograph and in this book. His interest in thinking language resulted in special issues on Wilhelm von Humboldt and Henri Meschonnic and an English language Meschonnic Reader. Recently, he has worked on health and biopolitics with an edited volume and a forthcoming special issue, and on the notion of the abyss as a concept for cultural theory an edited volume is forthcoming. This is part of his overarching research project: see the website APT (Academia for Poetic Thinking): apt.ut.ee.

• AcknowledgmentsPoetic thinking. Now Today's physical worldview Neuroscience The question of the human Embodied thinking against body technologies Life science and form of life Attitude, mood, atmosphere Immanent transcendence, silence and presence Thinking language Dialogical thinking The meaning and purpose of poetic thinking SourcesIndex

"Poetic Thinking. Now is a passionate treatise, a courageous sketch of a new philosophical anthropology. The creative power of language is at its very heart. It is a critique of poetic reason and an engaging manifesto encouraging the reader to grasp the power of the poetic as a way to freedom. Now!"Prof Dr Jürgen Trabant, Professor Emeritus, Free University Berlin, Germany

Marko Pajević took up an EU funded Professorship of German Studies at the University of Tartu in January 2018 after holding positions at the Sorbonne, Paris IV and Queen’s University Belfast, as well as Royal Holloway and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely in German, English and French on poetics, with (co-)edited volumes on Paul Celan, multilingualism and the political, German and European poetics after the Holocaust and on the connection between poetry and musicality. He wrote monographs on Paul Celan and Franz Kafka. At the heart of his work stands the development of a poetological anthropology, as presented most prominently in a German-language monograph and in this book. His interest in thinking language resulted in special issues on Wilhelm von Humboldt and Henri Meschonnic and an English language Meschonnic Reader. Recently, he has worked on health and biopolitics with an edited volume and a forthcoming special issue, and on the notion of the abyss as a concept for cultural theory an edited volume is forthcoming. This is part of his overarching research project: see the website APT (Academia for Poetic Thinking): apt.ut.ee.

• AcknowledgmentsPoetic thinking. Now Today's physical worldview Neuroscience The question of the human Embodied thinking against body technologies Life science and form of life Attitude, mood, atmosphere Immanent transcendence, silence and presence Thinking language Dialogical thinking The meaning and purpose of poetic thinking SourcesIndex

"Poetic Thinking. Now is a passionate treatise, a courageous sketch of a new philosophical anthropology. The creative power of language is at its very heart. It is a critique of poetic reason and an engaging manifesto encouraging the reader to grasp the power of the poetic as a way to freedom. Now!"Prof Dr Jürgen Trabant, Professor Emeritus, Free University Berlin, Germany

Marko Pajević took up an EU funded Professorship of German Studies at the University of Tartu in January 2018 after holding positions at the Sorbonne, Paris IV and Queen’s University Belfast, as well as Royal Holloway and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely in German, English and French on poetics, with (co-)edited volumes on Paul Celan, multilingualism and the political, German and European poetics after the Holocaust and on the connection between poetry and musicality. He wrote monographs on Paul Celan and Franz Kafka. At the heart of his work stands the development of a poetological anthropology, as presented most prominently in a German-language monograph and in this book. His interest in thinking language resulted in special issues on Wilhelm von Humboldt and Henri Meschonnic and an English language Meschonnic Reader. Recently, he has worked on health and biopolitics with an edited volume and a forthcoming special issue, and on the notion of the abyss as a concept for cultural theory an edited volume is forthcoming. This is part of his overarching research project: see the website APT (Academia for Poetic Thinking): apt.ut.ee.

• AcknowledgmentsPoetic thinking. Now Today's physical worldview Neuroscience The question of the human Embodied thinking against body technologies Life science and form of life Attitude, mood, atmosphere Immanent transcendence, silence and presence Thinking language Dialogical thinking The meaning and purpose of poetic thinking SourcesIndex

"Poetic Thinking. Now is a passionate treatise, a courageous sketch of a new philosophical anthropology. The creative power of language is at its very heart. It is a critique of poetic reason and an engaging manifesto encouraging the reader to grasp the power of the poetic as a way to freedom. Now!"Prof Dr Jürgen Trabant, Professor Emeritus, Free University Berlin, Germany