Attention beyond mindfulness
This book shows, the way we think about attention is usually through its instrumentality, by what can be achieved if we give something enough of it--say, a crisply written report, a newly built bookcase, or even a satisfied child who has yearned for engagement. Yet in losing ourselves to the objects...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, UK
Reaktion Books
2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This book shows, the way we think about attention is usually through its instrumentality, by what can be achieved if we give something enough of it--say, a crisply written report, a newly built bookcase, or even a satisfied child who has yearned for engagement. Yet in losing ourselves to the objects of our fixation, we often neglect the process of attention itself. Exploring everything from attention's effects on our neurons to attention deficit disorder, from the mindfulness movement to the relationship between attention and creativity, it examines attention in action through many disciplines and ways of life. Along the way, the book offers interviews with an astonishing cast of creative people--from composers to poets to artists to psychologists--including John Luther Adams, Stephen Batchelor, Sue Blackmore, Guy Claxton, Edmund de Waal, Rick Hanson, Jane Hirshfield, Wayne Macgregor, Iain McGilchrist, Garry Fabian Miller, Alice and Peter Oswald, Ruth Ozeki, and James Turrell Attending to attention -- Creative attention -- The attentive art of mediation and mindfulness practices -- The neuroscience of attention -- Emotional attention -- Attentive education -- Attending to creativity -- Attentiveness to the word -- Visual attention -- Aural attention: listening and hearing -- Embodied attention -- Attentive and experiential in-conclusions |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-302) |
| Beschreibung: | 304 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781780237459 978-1-78023-745-9 1780237456 1-78023-745-6 |