Book Title: Poetry and Ethics: Inventing Possibilities in Which We Are Moved to Action and How We Live Together
Editors: Obiora Ike, Andrea Grieder, Ignace Haaz
Publisher: Globethics.net
Year of Publication: 2018
Language: English
ISBN: 9782889312436 (online), 9782889312429 (print)
No. of Pages: 262
Abstract:
This book on the topic of ethics and poetry consists of contributions from different continents on the subject of applied ethics related to poetry.
It should gather a favourable reception from philosophers, ethicists, theologians, and anthropologists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and allow for a comparison of the healing power of words from various religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions.
The first part of this book presents original poems that express ethical emotions and aphorisms related to a philosophical questioning of the grounding of our values for life. The poems are written by twelve authors coming from four continents, for whom poetic emotions are sources of artistic inspiration, and can be used for conflict resolution.
In the second part, which features short essays, nine authors tackle how poems, symbolic representations, metaphorical narratives, and lies impact the space of possibilities, in which we are moved to action, knowledge formation, and how we imagine the world together.
