Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation

by Alexander Samely

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303155762X
• ISBN13: 9783031557620
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"