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The Phenomenology of Love and Reading, Paperback / softback Book

The Phenomenology of Love and Reading Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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