Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation

Alexander Samely (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 442 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-55765-1 (ISBN)

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This text is the first comprehensive attempt in decades to integrate reading into the philosophical discussion of the synthesis of experience more generally. It offers a comprehensive critique of three disciplinary approaches to reading: philosophical, literary and empirical/neuroscientific, while developing an innovative and unifying phenomenological account. It discusses texts from a variety of contemporary and historical contexts. It is inclusive, treating non-fiction alongside fiction, literary art alongside everyday texts, and narrative alongside thematic discourse. It addresses all reading practices found today: casual and unreflective reading, close and scholarly reading with re-reading, the analysis of literary art, and sacred text study and memorization. In the current intellectual landscape, the book is unique in bringing all these aspects together in a philosophically coherent discussion. The book provides a critique of philosophical accountsof text meaning and linguistic experience by philosophers from Husserl and Ingarden to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Gadamer and Derrida, and examines the positions of contemporary 'naturalizing' phenomenologists, such as Varela and Thompson. Also treated are neuroscientists such as Dehaene, and theorists of consciousness such as Kintsch, Flanagan and Dennett. Finally, this volume engages with psychological, linguistic, structuralist, 'theory of mind' and 'experiential' approaches in literary studies, from Bühler and Hamburger to Fludernik, Herman and Kuzmicová. It appeals to students and researchers working in these fields.

Dr. Alexander Samely is professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Manchester (since 2006). He has taught 20th-century philosophy for many years and has been the convenor of the Manchester Phenomenology Reading Group since 2002 (http://manchesterphenomenology.blogspot.com/).

Introduction: A New Way to Look at Reading.- Paradigms for Explaining the Experience of Reading.- Perceiving the Text.- The Text as Temporally Dispersed.- Reflecting on Connections Across Time.- Characters: The Text's Representation of Experience.- Perceiving and Naming as Situated Acts.- The Mutuality of Text Meanings Through Synthesis.- Experiencing Meanings-Designate.- The Synthesis of Sequence.- The Text World: Dense and One.- Reader Habits of Synthesizing a World.- Associating New World Components.- Associating Textual Features.- The Synthesis of Texts as a Synthesis of Life.- The Temporal Plot of Understanding the Text.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Hermeneutics
Zusatzinfo	XI, 442 p. 23 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	husserl and hermeneutics • love and reading • phenomenology and hermeneutics • reading and hermeneutics • reading and phenomenology • Ricoeur and reading • synthesis of experience
ISBN-10	3-031-55765-4 / 3031557654
ISBN-13	978-3-031-55765-1 / 9783031557651
Zustand	Neuware