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Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Poiesis; Being an Organism Is Desire; Sensuous Selves; Biopoetics as Paradigm for Living Relationships; "Enlivenment": A Program for a Poetic First Person Ecology; Poetic Space: The Scope of First Person Ecology; 2 Subjectivity; The Construction of Self and World; Organisms Are Not Machines; Interpretation in Action; The Immune-System and the Creation of Self; Self-Construction and Sign-Process; Since Feeling Is First; Empirical Subjectivity; 3 Expression; Body as Soul; Embodied Cognition Is Poetic Expression; Expression as Mediation Between Inside and Outside
Unfolding the Interior Dimension4 Meaning; Meaning as Apriori; Organic Existentialism and Autopoiesis; Feeling the World as Feeling Values; A Practice of Value-in-the-Flesh; Feeling and Vital Import; 5 Core Self; Meaning and Subjectivity: The Lingua Franca of Life; The Core Self Does Not Represent; Core Self and Symbol; Creating the Core Self: "Symbolic Pregnance"; Beyond the Mind-Body-Problem; Mimesis: How Meaning Arises from Bodies; Goethe: Poiesis and the Absolute Other; 6 Contradiction; Materialistic Reduction and Idealistic Inflation; Logical Conflict as the Source of Life
Contradiction as DesireTender Transformations; The "Incompleteness of Life"; Privation as an Organ of Perception; 7 Words; When Talk Is Touch, and Poetry Perception; Men Are Grass; Language as a Nervous System; A Preliminary Framework for a Poetics of Living Systems; Imagination, Misunderstanding, and Invention; Reality Speaks Us; The Map or the Territorry; 8 Transformation; Interpenetration as Mutual Transformation; Identity as Transformation; Reciprocal Specification; Dreaming the Other, Being Dreamt by the World; Enactivism: Imagining the Other; The Living Self
Needful Freedom Exists Below All Differentiations9 Flesh; Dialogics: The Other as Inner Necessity; Subjectivity Beyond Embodiment; Subject as Inter-Subject; To Touch Is to Be Touched; Being the Other; Poetic Matter; 10 Objectivity; Objectivity Refuses Purifications; Poetic Practice: Sharing the Conditio Vitae Between All Beings; Existential Sculptures; The Creole of the Living Body; Objective Affection; Culture as Enaction of Poetic Objectivity; 11 Aliveness; "Thinking Like a Mountain"; From the Poetics of Organism to the Meaning of Nature; Human Culture Is Nature
Finding Ourselves in the Others12 Poetic Space; Held in Reach by the Same Star; Nature is Inside; The Ordering of Impermanence; 13 Conatus; Towards the "Quantum Leap" in Biology; Seeing with Metaphors; Physical Body as Absolute Space; Connectedness in Freedom; Bibliography
Unfolding the Interior Dimension4 Meaning; Meaning as Apriori; Organic Existentialism and Autopoiesis; Feeling the World as Feeling Values; A Practice of Value-in-the-Flesh; Feeling and Vital Import; 5 Core Self; Meaning and Subjectivity: The Lingua Franca of Life; The Core Self Does Not Represent; Core Self and Symbol; Creating the Core Self: "Symbolic Pregnance"; Beyond the Mind-Body-Problem; Mimesis: How Meaning Arises from Bodies; Goethe: Poiesis and the Absolute Other; 6 Contradiction; Materialistic Reduction and Idealistic Inflation; Logical Conflict as the Source of Life
Contradiction as DesireTender Transformations; The "Incompleteness of Life"; Privation as an Organ of Perception; 7 Words; When Talk Is Touch, and Poetry Perception; Men Are Grass; Language as a Nervous System; A Preliminary Framework for a Poetics of Living Systems; Imagination, Misunderstanding, and Invention; Reality Speaks Us; The Map or the Territorry; 8 Transformation; Interpenetration as Mutual Transformation; Identity as Transformation; Reciprocal Specification; Dreaming the Other, Being Dreamt by the World; Enactivism: Imagining the Other; The Living Self
Needful Freedom Exists Below All Differentiations9 Flesh; Dialogics: The Other as Inner Necessity; Subjectivity Beyond Embodiment; Subject as Inter-Subject; To Touch Is to Be Touched; Being the Other; Poetic Matter; 10 Objectivity; Objectivity Refuses Purifications; Poetic Practice: Sharing the Conditio Vitae Between All Beings; Existential Sculptures; The Creole of the Living Body; Objective Affection; Culture as Enaction of Poetic Objectivity; 11 Aliveness; "Thinking Like a Mountain"; From the Poetics of Organism to the Meaning of Nature; Human Culture Is Nature
Finding Ourselves in the Others12 Poetic Space; Held in Reach by the Same Star; Nature is Inside; The Ordering of Impermanence; 13 Conatus; Towards the "Quantum Leap" in Biology; Seeing with Metaphors; Physical Body as Absolute Space; Connectedness in Freedom; Bibliography