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A Phenomenology of Attention and the UnfamiliarThe Alien World: Attention and the Habitual

A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar: The Alien World: Attention and the Habitual [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 characteristics of the function of attention that are disclosed by the encounter with an alien environment. Thereby, attention is considered as being neither fully under the control of the subject nor completely the result of the external conditioning of our sense perception. Rather, attention will be seen to reside within a reciprocal field of tension between the familiar and the alien. This is related to Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “intentional arc,” describing the process of transition from the indeterminate to the determinate.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Phenomenology of Attention and the UnfamiliarThe Alien World: Attention and the Habitual

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-14116-4
Pages
49 –74
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-14117-1_2
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[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 characteristics of the function of attention that are disclosed by the encounter with an alien environment. Thereby, attention is considered as being neither fully under the control of the subject nor completely the result of the external conditioning of our sense perception. Rather, attention will be seen to reside within a reciprocal field of tension between the familiar and the alien. This is related to Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “intentional arc,” describing the process of transition from the indeterminate to the determinate.]

Published: Oct 11, 2022

Keywords: Alien; Habitual; Indeterminate; Intentional arc; Merleau-Ponty; Orientation; Bernhard Waldenfels; Wittgenstein

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