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We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of politics, culture and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, yet fail to investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: North, Paul, 1971- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Temas:
Distraction (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern.
Distraction (Philosophie)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Phenomenology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Primal distraction.
  • Not-always-thinking / Aristotle
  • A face for distraction / La Bruyère
  • Labyrinth of pure reflection / Kafka
  • Dissipation
  • power
  • transcendence / Heidegger
  • Time wears away / Benjamin
  • Epilogue : distraction and politics
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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