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.
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- Full title :Reading as a philosophical practice / Robert Piercey.
Summary
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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Anthem Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 130 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781785276095, 1785276093, 9781785276088, 1785276085
- oclc:on1227386908
- LC Classification:Z1003
- Dewey Decimal:028.01
Table of Contents
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.
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