Name: Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation
ISBN: 978-3-031-55762-0

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Alexander Samely ⁰

Alexander Samely
1. School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Offers comprehensive critiques of three disciplinary approaches to text reading
Provides comprehensiveness and a non-parochial perspective in placing the experience of the modern reader
Provides a critique of philosophical accounts of text meaning and linguistic experience

Part of the book series: Contributions to Hermeneutics (CONT HERMEN, volume 13)

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Keywords

phenomenology and hermeneutics
husserl and hermeneutics
reading and phenomenology
synthesis of experience
love and reading
reading and hermeneutics
Ricoeur and reading

About this book

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 Kuzmičová. It appeals to students and researchers working in these fields.

Authors and Affiliations

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Alexander Samely

About the author

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/).

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation
Authors: Alexander Samely
Series Title: Contributions to Hermeneutics
Publisher: Springer 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 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55762-0Due: 15 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55765-1Due: 15 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55763-7Due: 15 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2509-6087
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 444

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