The Poetic Mind

Description

The poetic mind is the fourth mind revealed in this book. Philosophers, scholars of civilization, and anthropologists have traditionally identified three types of mind: religious, philosophical, and scientific. However, the author of this book argues that the poetic mind precedes these three, is the center of their creativity, and attributes to it all artistic, creative, and aesthetic visions. The book attempts to uncover the layers and structures of this poetic mind (the pure, the pervasive, the speaking, the practical, the manifest, and the hidden), delving into the most minute details that the aesthetics of poetry has addressed with much generalization. It then moves toward a new qualitative approach that establishes a different poetic theory and reveals new secrets that explain many processes of aesthetic creation in general. The book boldly examines, through the lens of poetic theory, the positive sciences, philosophy, mythology, history, religious studies, psychology, and sociology, as well as modern approaches in structuralism, semiotics, deconstruction, and interpretation, uncovering new realms of secrets. He establishes a new terminological system specific to poetry, which, according to the author, is “all creativity.”