poiesis

See also: -poiesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). Doublet of poesy.

Noun

poiesis (countable and uncountable, plural poieses)

1. An act or process of creation.
   • 2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162:

     Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.

Derived terms

• -poiesis

Related terms

• poietic

Translations

act or process of creation

• Italian: poiesi (it) f
• Portuguese: poiese (pt) f

See also

• esthesis