Article/Publication Details
Views: 2460

R. PARKER, I. QUEPONS (EDS.)
PHENOMENOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, SYSTEMATICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
New York: Routledge, 2018. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 16. ISBN 9780429470141

Abstract
Is there a chance to grasp the reachness and the variety of my emotional feeling to reflect upon it, not reducing it to the irrational state of mind or primary instinctive reaction? How can we describe the structure of emotional state, and does it affects our (self)understanding? How do I perceive something as valuable, what does it mean to be affected, to feel hatred or shame? The presented review highlights these issues together with the main historical topics and some other notions, that has been focused upon in the essays, included into the volume of Phenomenology of Emotions, Systematical and Historical Perspectives (2018). The early phenomenological projects of A. Pfaender, E. Husserl, M. Scheler and E. Stein, that has been introduced from the historical point of view, provide a range of questions for phenomenological theory of emotions to be developed further. In this review, I provide a brief overview of the contributions to this volume to show how this new “regional ontology” has emerged and what is the possible role of phenomenology in the “interplay” of arguments of analytical philosophy, cognitive and neurobiological approaches to consciousness and emotional sphere.

Key words
Phenomenology, Husserl, affectivity, feelings, emotions, intentionality, evaluation, value, action, color, mood.

References

• Damasio, A. (2004). Emotions and Feelings: a Neurobiological Perspective. In S. R. Manstead, N. Frijda, & A. Fischer (Eds.), Feelings and Emotions: the Amsterdam Symposium (9–57). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Depraz, N., & Steinbock, A. J. (Eds.). (2018). Surprise: An Emotion? Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 97. Berlin: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
• Depraz, N., & Varela, F. J. (2005). At the Source of Time: Valence and the Constitutional Dynamics of Affect. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2 (8–10), 61–81.
• Goldie, P. (2000). The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Landweer, H., & Szanto, T. (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotions. London, New York: Routledge.
• Husserl, E. (1968). Phänomenologische Psychologie. Vorlesungen Sommersemester 1925 (Hua IX). Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media.
• Husserl, E. (1988). Vorlesungen über Ethik und Wertlehre (1908–1914) (Hua XXVIII) The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Husserl, E. (2001). Cartesian Meditations. Rus. Ed. St Petersburg: Nauka Publ. (In Russian).
• Husserl, E. (2020). Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins (Hua XLVII). Berlin: Springer.
• Lee, Nam-In. (1998). Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Mood. In N. Depraz, & D. Zahavi (Eds.), Alterity and Facticity. New Perspectives on Husserl (103–120). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Nussbaum, M. (2004). Emotions as Judgements of Value and Importance. In R. C. Solomon (Ed.), Thinking about Feeling. Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions (183–199). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Parker, R., & Quepons, I. (Eds.). (2018). Phenomenology of Emotions, Systematical and Historical Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
• Prinz, J. (2004). Embodied Emotions. In R.C. Solomon (Ed.), Thinking about Feeling. Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions (44–58). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Solomon, R. C. (2004). Emotions, Thoughts, and Feelings. Emotions as Engagements with the World. In R. C. Solomon (Ed.), Thinking about Feeling. Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions (76– 88). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Vendrell Ferran, I. (2015). Empathy, Emotional Sharing and Feelings in Stein’s Early Work. In D. Moran, & T. Szanto (Eds.), Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Stein’s Special Issue, 38(4), 481–502. doi 10.1007/s10746–015–9346–4
• Stein, E. (2010). Zum Problem der Einfühlung. Freiburg: Herder.
• Villoro, L. (1997). El poder y el valor. México: FCE/El Colegio Nacional.