Edited by Ralph Müller and Friederike Reents

Poetry is often considered hermetical, emotion-focused or aesthetically overdetermined. For this reason, the relationship between poetry and cognition appears, at first glance, as hardly compelling as that of art and science, of feeling and thinking, or even of intuition and analysis. The contributions to this volume, coming from philosophical and literary criticism perspectives, dedicate themselves to the methods and forms which make use of potential cognitive functions in poetry, especially contemporary poetry. This endeavor is fundamentally concerned with questions of the relationship between poetry and cognition: Which forms of “cognition” are even possible in poetry? In what way and in what forms can poetry also be a medium of generation and/or mediation off. cognition, experience or even knowledge and truth? And which processes, matters, or “information” are thereby privileged? Are there subgenres of poetry, for example historical poetry, reflective poetry or didactic poetry, that are especially relevant as regards cognitive functions? And can cognition also be mediated through aura, Stimmung or experience?

ISSN 2698-492X  (Print)
ISSN 2698-4938  (Online)
Trier 2019