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Book SynopsisEmotions are among the most fundamental human capacities. They help us to adequately and quickly respond to environmental affordances of all kinds. Being capable of emotional responses we are inextricably attached to our natural and social environment. These tight emotional bonds to the world we inhabit are immediately conspicuous when we find ourselves in the grip of strong feelings like fear, love, hate or disgust. They are also present in all other kinds of emotions, for instance, feelings of awe, compassion or artistic enthusiasm. This volume tracks a variety of emotions in a phenomenological manner. It explores the intertwinement of cognitive content and feeling qualities of different emotions, their varying motivational and expressive qualities, their bodily manifestations, and social and moral implications. This focus on a phenomenology of emotion reveals the rich meaning of emotions that results from their embeddedness in our social and moral life. The authors describe the peculiar character of human emotions from the first- and second-person point of view of those subjects who undergo and regularly share these emotions.
Trade Review"Emotional Experiences" is a truly original contribution in emotion studies, as it fully delivers on its promise to provide accurate descriptions that disclose the essential structure of several emotions. The essays not only offer illuminating accounts that are faithful to the phenomena, they also show how much philosophy of mind can learn from a robust phenomenological inquiry into the intentional, attitudinal, and evaluative aspects of affective experience. -- Anthony Hatzimoysis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Athens
Emotions are currently a topic of intense philosophical investigation, and Emotional Experiences demonstrates the indispensable contribution the tradition of Husserlian phenomenology is making to that investigation. Going beyond the psychology of emotions and a focus on their role in causal explanations, the essays provide eye-opening analyses of specific emotions, revealing the complex entanglement of self, others, and the world they entail. -- Steven Crowell, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
Table of Contents1. Introduction / 2. Anger and Indignation, John J. Drummond / 3. Contempt: A Phenomenological Exploration, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran / 4. Pride, Anthony Steinbock / 5. Shame as an Existential Virtue, Paul Gyllenhammer / 6. Cowardice and the Courage to Be: A Phenomenology of the Rescued Self, Roberta De Monticelli / 7. On Grieving: Experiential Quality, Transformative Power, and Social Implications, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl / 8. Dignity and the Phenomenology of Respect, Uriah Kriegel / 9. Trust, Anne Ozar / 10. Love and Wonder, Sara Heinämaa / 11. Goose Bumps and Small Selves: Awe as a Moral Emotion, Michele Averchi / Index
