Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introducing Marion; The problem of rhetoric; 1 Phenomenology and Literature; The prehistory of phenomenology and literature; Literature and wonder; 2 The Erotic Reduction; The conversation; The receptive reader; 3 The Lover's Advance; Double vision; Some loves; Interlude; 4 Empathy; Two approaches to empathy; Empathy, phenomenology, and literature; Fugitive Pieces; The failure of empathy; 5 Attention; Two models of attention; Pure and impure attention; Admiration and contemplation; 6 Being Overwhelmed

Reading as eventReading as idol; Reading as icon; Reading and the flesh; Love and the endless hermeneutic; Conclusion; Unreasonable reading; The situatedness of charitable reading; Bibliography; Index