A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar

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.

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

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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.