TY - JOUR A1 - Fishburn, Katherine T1 - To have or to be: A Poet’s Journey to the Question of Environmental Ethics and Justice T2 - The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, Vol.2, No. 3 (2007), pp. 237-248. [Online ISSN 2474-2260] [doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/CGP/v02i03/52303] N2 - ln this paper I discuss the various paths I have taken to become a poet who gives voice to some of the key environmental issues of our time. As I map out this journey I discuss a selection of my own poetry that focuses on the topic of environmental ethics and justice. The main influences on my poetry come from:· my own childhood experiences with nature, academic research I have done on pain and my personal experience of pain (inspired by Arthur Frank's book >The Wounded Storyteller< and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's late essay >The Intertwining<), the question concerning technology (inspired by Heidegger's essay of this name), philosophical hermeneutics (from Gadamer's work. especially >Truth and Method<), and the ethical obligation to bear witness to suffering. My goal as an essayist and a poet is to move toward the consilience described by E. O. Wilson's book of that name and to further me project of Erich Fromm as laid out in his book >To Have Or To Be<. Just as poetry by its nature cannot offer programs for social change, poets cannot exhort readers to take action; instead, we must inspire them to change by touching the very fiber of their being-in-the-world. Y1 - 2007 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37280 ER -