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A Phenomenology of Creative Attention

Merleau-Ponty and Philosophy of Mind

D'Angelo, Diego

Phänomenologische Forschungen, Bd. 2018 (2018), Iss. 2: S. 100–117

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D'Angelo, Diego

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Abstract

This paper develops the concept of ‘creative attention’. Against classical theories that understand attention as a spotlight that brings objects into focus, I will argue that attention is a complex phenomenon structured in different layers. The most basic layer is perceptual, passive and pre-predicative: at this level, attention is creative – and this is the central claim of this paper – because it institutes meanings and rules for our behaviour