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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821282403321

Author

Flakne April <1966->

Title

The Affection in Between : From Common Sense to Sensing in Common / / April Flakne

Publication

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-8214-4783-1

Designation of edition

[First edition.]

Physical description

1 online resource (287 pages)

Series statement

Series in Continental Thought Series ; ; Volume 56

Dewey

121.35

Subjects

Common sense

Phenomenology

Senses and sensation

Language

English

Format

Language material

Bibliographic level

Monograph

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted content note

Cover Page -- Series in Continental Thought -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Aristotle and the Birth of the Sunaisthetic Self -- Chapter 2. Intercorporeity and the Coming to Be of Common Sense -- Chapter 3. Others, Uncommon and Unsightly -- Part II -- Chapter 4. Morning Shades of Death -- Chapter 5. Giving Rise to the Other-in-Common -- Concluding Comments: Toward a Virtue of Creating the Common -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Summary, etc

"Drawing on phenomenology and everyday affective encounters of grieving, befriending, rearing, and bonding, Flakne warns against the disorientation and division implicit in what we think we mean by common sense. Instead, she invites us to relearn sensing together as key to an inevitable ethics of interembodiment"--