On Looking
Subtitle: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
By: Alexandra Horowitz
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781439191255
Subjects: Cognition; Perception; Awareness
Description: On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-294) and index.