Poetics of Naming

The power of language holds the world firmly in its grasp. The experience of being amazed_within and without_language is called poesis by author George Melnyk. In The Poetics of Naming, he conducts the reader on a philosophical, mystical, and poetic tour, exploring language as the ultimate metaphor, the shaper of all our meanings. At moments the text seems poignant, then whimsical. At other moments its words force us to the very edge of meaning, where we teeter over the abyss of meaninglessness. Sometimes the words of poesis are easy to traverse; sometimes they rise up insurmountable, impassable, awaiting a signpost that knows its secret ways.The writer guides us to the very edge of the poesis experience, where we stand at the furthest limit of language and look back on the ordinary world. That looking back on understanding establishes a distance between us and our everyday world, creating a field of vision where all the "beings" of our world seem far away and without meaning. In their place we sense only limitless being, where there are no boundaries, no shapes, no forms, no reality, as we normally understand it. Pure existence.Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Foucault, Gadamer, Derrida and Ricoeur, Melnyk weaves a mesmerizing text that resonates with a powerful drumbeat bringing us deeper and deeper into the very heart of language, where pure sound becomes an intoxicating wonder that calls us to escape into our deepest selves.Melnyk, George is the author of 'Poetics of Naming' with ISBN 9780888644091 and ISBN 0888644094.