The Phenomenology of Love and Reading

Name: The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Cassandra Falke

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The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with a spate of neuroscientific discoveries about cognition and emotion. But without a philosophical grounding this new work cannot speak convincingly about literature's relationship to our ethical lives. Jean-Luc Marion's articulation of a phenomenology of love provides this philosophical grounding.
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading accepts Jean-Luc Marion's argument that love matters for who we are more than anything-more than cognition and more than being itself. Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in love¿s habits-attention, empathy, and a willingness to be overwhelmed. Confounding our expectations, literature equips us for the confounding events of love, which, Falke suggests, are not rare and fleeting, but rather constitute the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 186
Release Date:: 2016-11-17
Publication Date:: 2016-11-17
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1628926481
ISBN13:: 9781628926484
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 429 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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