Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why readingeveryday reading for pleasurematters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers it is a way of working through and taking a stand on certain fundamental questions about who and what we are how we should live and how we relate to other things. The book examines the lessons that the activity of reading seems to teach about selfhood morality and ontology and it tri