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Reading as a philosophical practice /
This book asks why reading matters so much to so many people. Its answer is that reading is a philosophical activity: a way of working through, and taking a stand on, fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Anthem studies in bibliotherapy and well-being.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Philosophizing about Reading: The Very Idea
- Reading Matters
- Reading as a Philosophical Activity
- Haven't I Read This Story Before?
- Fanfare for the Common Reader
- Two Objections
- 2. The Reading Self
- Lost in a Book
- Describing the Act of Reading
- Further Steps
- 3. The Reading Life
- About a Boy
- What to Read
- Rereading
- How to Feel about Oneself as a Reader
- Stories and Quests
- 4. Ethics from Reading?
- Improving Reading
- The Supply-Side Approach
- The Conversational Approach
- A Hermeneutical Approach
- Where This Leaves Us
- 5. Ethics of Reading?
- Responsible Readers
- Two Kinds of Responsibilities
- A Deontological Approach
- An Alterior Approach
- A Eudaimonistic Approach
- Practices, Traditions and History
- 6. Reading Things
- Here's the Thing
- Relating to Books
- Collecting the Virtual
- Collecting Writ Large
- Collecting the Collectors
- 7. The Future of the Common Reader
- A Digital Future?
- Changing Practices
- Changing the Questions
- Changing Philosophy
- Notes.