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A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14117-1

ISBN: 978-3-031-14116-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 11, 2022

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A Brief Genealogy of the Concept of Attention in Phenomenology

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 1 –48

[The first chapter describes the history of a seminal shift in the meaning of the concept of attention in late modern philosophy and psychology. This entails a narrative that follows how the question of salience became the pivotal issue for William James, Aron Gurwitsch, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.]
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The Alien World: Attention and the Habitual

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 49 –74

[This chapter examines the role of attention in encounters with the unknown. By examining this process of the unknown becoming known, through a reading of some seminal works, notably by Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, and Waldenfels, the inquiry focuses on the existentially significant...
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Attention Within the Body: Orientation Lost and Found

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 75 –109

[The chapter focuses on one specific existential aspect of our relation to our bodies that can be summed up in the question: What does it mean to claim that one’s body is unfamiliar to oneself?]
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Shared Attention as Communion

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 111 –130

[The preceding chapters mainly discuss the phenomenology of attention in the context of a first-person perspective. This chapter moves the focus toward an analysis of attention in relation to intersubjectivity. For us to explain how it is possible for two beings to attend to the same thing, in...
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Animal Attention with Cézanne

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 131 –163

[In this chapter, I will investigate a development in which a cultural understanding, as exemplified notably in artistic expression, shifts from one way of seeing to another. I will follow Merleau-Ponty’s and Iris Murdoch’s interpretation of the work of Paul Cézanne and the Impressionist movement...
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Benevolent Attention: Blinded by Judgment

Fredriksson, Antony

Pages: 165 –193

[The last chapter aims to show how attention is to be understood as moral propensity and how the concept of attention contains an ethical meaning. The verb form “attend to” something or someone means to care about (the etymology of tend to), whereas the noun “attention” refers to a faculty of...

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