Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Brain and Aesthetic Experience -- 2 How the Brain Learns to Read and the Play of Harmony and Dissonance -- 3 The Neuroscience of the Hermeneutic Circle -- 4 The Temporality of Reading and the Decentered Brain -- 5 The Social Brain and the Paradox of the Alter Ego -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.