The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
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The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading

The Phenomenology of Love and Reading

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Cassandra Falke (Author)  

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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 loves 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.
Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Tromso, Norway. Her previous books include Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848 (2013) and, as editor, Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (2010). She has also published articles about English Romanticism, literary theory, and liberal arts education.
  • Contributor: Cassandra Falke
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • ISBN13: 9781501342134
  • Number of Pages: 192
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 259
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Release Date: 2018-05-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Tromso, Norway. Her previous books include Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848 (2013) and, as editor, Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (2010). She has also published articles about English Romanticism, literary theory, and liberal arts education.

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