Robert Piercey

Reading as a Philosophical Practice (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785276095
• Artikelnr.: 60757261

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Philosophizing about Reading: The Very Idea
2. The Reading Self
3. The Reading Life
4. Ethics from Reading?
5. Ethics of Reading?
6. Reading Things
7. The Future of the Common Reader
Notes
Bibliography
Index.