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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander SamelyPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2024 Volume: 13 ISBN: 9783031557620ISBN 10: 303155762 Pages: 442 Publication Date: 11 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationDr. 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/). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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