Name: The Problem of Distraction (en Inglés)
SKU: 18748349
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Author: Paul North

portada The Problem of Distraction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Paul North

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

233

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0804786879

ISBN13

9780804786874

N° edición

Categorías

Filosofía humanista

The Problem of Distraction (en Inglés)

Paul North (Autor) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, but as truly discontinuous intellect. Human being has to be reconceived, according to this argument, not as quintessentially thought-bearing, but as subject to repeated, causeless blackouts of mind.The Problem of Distraction presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to the largely forgotten, early twentieth-century efforts by Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin to revolutionize the humanities by means of distraction. Further, the book makes the case that our present troubles cannot be solved by recovering or enhancing attention. Not-always-thinking beings are beset by radical breaks in their experience, but in this way they are also receptive to what has not and cannot yet be called experience.