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A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar

Encounters with the Unknown

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a novel perspective on the role of attention in encounters with the unknown

  • Provides a unique reading of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception

  • Articulates an ethics of attention

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The Alien World: Attention and the Habitual

    • Antony Fredriksson
    Pages 49-74
  3. Shared Attention as Communion

    • Antony Fredriksson
    Pages 111-130
  4. Animal Attention with Cézanne

    • Antony Fredriksson
    Pages 131-163
  5. Benevolent Attention: Blinded by Judgment

    • Antony Fredriksson
    Pages 165-193
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 195-200

About this book

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience. The aim of the book is to reveal some characteristics of the processes in which subjects are unmade and remade, and to highlight how we are able to change our relation to an empirical world that nevertheless has unity and constancy in our perception.

Keywords

  • Phenomenology
  • Attention
  • Unfamiliar
  • Environment
  • Inter-subjective
  • William James
  • Merleau-Ponty

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Antony Fredriksson

About the author

Antony Fredriksson (PhD) is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice. His areas of interest include aesthetics, phenomenology, philosophy of perception, film and philosophy, attention, intersubjectivity, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar

  • Book Subtitle: Encounters with the Unknown

  • Authors: Antony Fredriksson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14117-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14116-4Published: 11 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14119-5Published: 11 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14117-1Published: 10 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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