Medicinal Garden Thoughts on two of Heidegger’s essays
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In catastrophic times, sweet cultivation of the land could be one of the ways we ‘husband’ the earth and pose a communion with the cosmos to enact the possibility to survive as humanity. In this paper I propose the notion of the medicinal garden as a metaphor for tending the soil with care. Heidegger’s concepts of techné and poiesis in his essay “The Question about technology” and his comparison of thinking to craftsmanship in “What calls for thinking” are the basis for this metaphor. I claim that nurturing land with very little technological intervention, in the ways Amerindian communities do, possess another way of husbandry that is poetic in itself, taking into account the fact that techné in Heidegger’s concept is not technological at all.
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