What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the
extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the
emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move "beyond
the limits of thought" and to explore the beyond of cognition. It
teaches us to think differently. An elliptic response to
Wittgenstein's point of arrival in the Tractatus, this book is
first and foremost an interdisciplinary study of poetry, drawing on
literary theory, philosophy, and cognitive science. The work
conducted on minds and brains over the last decades in psychology,
artificial intelligence, or neuroscience cannot be ignored, if, as
"humanists," we are ever interested in the way we think. Thus, a
constant dialogue with the positive examination of cognition serves
to better situate the normal regimes of thought-and to underline
the other mental possibilities that literature opens up. This essay
shows that poetry-a very widespread and possibly universal
phenomenon among humans-arises through syntactic structures,
cognitive binding, and mental regulations; but that, in going
through them, it also exceeds them. The best poems, then, are not
only thought experiments but actual thinking experiments for the
unthinkable. They expand the usual semantics of natural languages,
they singularly deploy the rhetorical armature of speech. They tend
to exceed their own algorithms, made of iterations and linguistic
re-organizations. They are often reflexive, strange, cognitively
dissonant. They provide detachable, movable, and livable
significations to our selves. The literary scope of this book is
more than "global:" it is uniquely broad and comparative,
encompassing dozens of different traditions, oral or written, from
all continents, from Ancient times to the contemporary era, with
some thirty specific readings of texts, ranging from Sophocles to
Gertrude Stein, from Wang Wei to Aime Cesaire, or from cuneiform
tablet to rap music.
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