ISBN: 9781628926491

The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with … Plus…

The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with a spate of neuroscientific discoveries about cognition and emotion. But without a philosophical grounding this new work cannot speak convincingly about literature's relationship to our ethical lives. Jean-Luc Marion's articulation of a phenomenology of love provides this philosophical grounding.The Phenomenology of Love and Reading accepts Jean-Luc Marion's argument that love matters for who we are more than anything-more than cognition and more than being itself. Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in love's habits-attention, empathy, and a willingness to be overwhelmed. Confounding our expectations, literature equips us for the confounding events of love, which, Falke suggests, are not rare and fleeting, but rather constitute the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)<

ISBN: 9781628926491

The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with … Plus…

The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with a spate of neuroscientific discoveries about cognition and emotion. But without a philosophical grounding this new work cannot speak convincingly about literature's relationship to our ethical lives. Jean-Luc Marion's articulation of a phenomenology of love provides this philosophical grounding.The Phenomenology of Love and Reading accepts Jean-Luc Marion's argument that love matters for who we are more than anything-more than cognition and more than being itself. Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to love by giving us practice in love's habits-attention, empathy, and a willingness to be overwhelmed. Confounding our expectations, literature equips us for the confounding events of love, which, Falke suggests, are not rare and fleeting, but rather constitute the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)<

ISBN: 9781628926491

1st Edition, by Cassandra Falke, PRINT ISBN: 9781501342134 E-TEXT ISBN: 9781628926491 Additional ISBNs: 1501342134, 1628926481, 9781501342134, 9781628926484 Bloomsbury USA eBook Other pri… Plus…

1st Edition, by Cassandra Falke, PRINT ISBN: 9781501342134 E-TEXT ISBN: 9781628926491 Additional ISBNs: 1501342134, 1628926481, 9781501342134, 9781628926484 Bloomsbury USA eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., Bloomsbury Academic USA<

2016, ISBN: 9781628926491

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