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(2011) Phenomenology of the alien, Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press.
Attention is something so ordinary that it is rarely considered in connection with the problem of the alien. Consequently, we might be missing one of the most important ways in which the alien comes to meet us, because it is intrinsic for attention that the senses can be controlled only to a limited extent. If the controls were perfect, life would be determined only by habit without allowing for anything of the alien.
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Waldenfels, B. (2011). Thresholds of attention, in Phenomenology of the alien, Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press, pp. 58-69.