A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar - Encounters with the Unknown

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.

List of contents

1 A Brief Genealogy of the Concept of Attention in Phenomenology.- 2 The Alien World: Attention and the Habitual.- 3 Attention Within the Body: Orientation Lost and Found.- 4 Shared Attention as Communion.- 5 Animal Attention with Cézanne.- 6 Benevolent Attention: Blinded by Judgment.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Fredriksson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2022
• EAN: 9783031141164
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3114116-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XVIII, 200 p. 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day