Reading as a Philosophical Practice (Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-being) - Softcover

Piercey, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1839985437 ISBN 13: 9781839985430

Verlag: Anthem Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading—everyday reading for pleasure—matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers, it is a way of working through, and taking a stand on, certain fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things. The book examines the lessons that the activity of reading seems to teach about selfhood, morality and ontology, and it tries to clarify the sometimes paradoxical claims that serious readers have made about it. To do so, it proposes an original theoretical framework based on Virginia Woolf’s notion of the common reader and Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of practice. It also asks whether reading can continue to play this role as paper is replaced by electronic screens.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Piercey is Professor of Philosophy at Campion College, University of Regina, Canada. He is the author of The Uses of the Past From Heidegger to Rorty and The Crisis in Continental Philosophy, and editor of Philosophy in Review. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1839985437
• ISBN 13: 9781839985430
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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