Affect, Emotion and Feeling
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Adelaide Central School of Art
Bachelor of Visual Art - Honours, 2015
Bachelor of Visual Art - Honours, 2015
Keywords: embodied spirituality, dance, feelings, altered states, other ways of knowing, direct, immediate and reciprocal experience and expression of spirit, and spirit beings, change and action. This article describes dance as a moving... more
_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to... more
Users aren’t always rational logical beings—emotion plays an often overlooked role in user acceptance of technology.
De strekking van de emotie schaamte is bij Max Scheler positief. Bij Sartre negatief. Waar de relatie met de gemeenschap bij Scheler juist deel uit maakt van het persoon zijn, is deze bij Sartre problematisch. Bij Sartre bedreigt... more
My theme is ‘life-writing’, understood as the shaping of one's life through the contemplation of values, although this activity is mostly unreflective. To become an art so that one's life can be shaped in greater accord with clearly held... more
Our journey to God really is one of being stripped down and approaching in our vulnerability and weakness, in our disgrace (lack of grace). The important thing to understand is that, when we feel “in control” we are inevitably putting up... more
There are certain thoughts - intimations - that will seem corny, or laughable, and therefore dismissed - and only seriously absorbed into the changing mind when felt, in the shelter of the quietly moving music of the soul. It is the... more
The paper introduces haptic medicine – healthcare based on loving touch for healing and preventing disease. We describe the effects of loving touch (a square inch of our skin has over 1000 nerves) on the body, brain and mind. We describe... more
Stories told through different media forms feel very distinctive from each other, to such an extent that there are stories which can only be told through one media form -- at least, if preserving the distinctive affective quality of the... more
This paper addresses the phenomenological relationships between affect-regulation and interpersonal experience in psychiatric illness. I argue that a capacity for affect-regulation is inextricable from how one relates to specific... more
Introduction to a volume on depression, co-edited with Achim Stephan (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2014). The introduction is co-authored with Achim Stephan and Somogy Varga.
Ever have that experience when someone or something "touches a nerve?" Most people have. Emotional Self- Prevention is one way to cope
In this paper I offer critical attention to the notion of atmosphere in relation to music. By exploring the concept through the case study of the Closed Brethren worship services, I argue that atmosphere may provide analytical tools to... more
The full pre-publication text of a 2015 book on feelings. Drawing on the work of Suzanne Langer, amongst other theorists, the book sets out a concept of feeling; explores its relationship with language and social relations; shows how... more
In this paper, we want to show how the text "What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking? (1786) preludes a phenomenology of feeling.
Matthew Ratcliffe's model of existential feelings can be seen as a critical engagement with perspectives common to analytic, theory of mind and psychological orientations that view psychological functions such as cognition and affectivity... more
The main argument of Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited is developed in three steps: [1] In the first part of the book, I present reconsiderations of certain basic terms that Husserl introduces in his philosophy. I first show that... more
Der Beitrag erläutert und analysiert die Kategorie der existenziellen Gefühle. Im Zentrum steht der Ansatz von Matthew Ratcliffe, der diesen Begriff eingeführt und vor allem im Bereich einer phänomenologischen Philosophie der Psychiatrie... more
"'Phil Hutchinson offers an incisive, insightful and deeply humane New Wittgensteinian critique of a number of influential accounts of the emotions, including shame. That too many philosophers have marginalized the 'person' in their... more
This short discussion piece engages with an influential phenomenological approach to atmospheres, focusing on the work of Hermann Schmitz. Against a background of agreement on the contours of an understanding of atmospheres and their... more
In direct confrontation with the phenomenology of Max Scheler (1874-1928), this paper proposes two theses: a) the emotion (from the Latin word e-movere) is the movement that leads us out of the repetitiveness of existence. Emotion does... more
This paper aims to offer a concise overview of certain key features of the accounts of emotion defended by the early phenomenologists. After briefly presenting the movement of early phenomenology and describing its historical context, I... more
This pdf contains Chapter 1 'Introducing' from this book, which posits feeling as the basis of an embodied psychology. The book sets out a concept of feeling, describes its responsivity to social and material influences, briefly considers... more
Ce livre développe, à partir de Merleau-Ponty, Henry et Sartre, une phénoménologie décrivant la vie perceptive du point de vue du désir d'éprouver qui s'y déploie. L'auteur interroge, selon différents chemins tout à la fois opposés et... more
CONSCIENCIA Y COGNICION 1/4- Una de las mayores ramas de la investigación sobre la consciencia y el inconsciente, lo levantó Benjamín Lisbeth, con sus experimentos entre los años sesenta y ochenta sobre el libre albedrío y la... more
The television screen, the photograph, the cinematic image are mirrors of the human self, mirrors that are caught up in national, global, and corporatised flows of information. Usually, media flows are theorised in fairly abstract terms... more
The article theorizes nostalgia as a cultural—and philosophical—category by focusing on its transformation through consumer society and its mythology. It builds on, but also goes beyond, existing critiques of the commodification of the... more
"The gendered body takes a phenomenological turn in Brower’s cosmopolitan essay on oral sexuality within philosophical, feminist, and lesbian traditions..." ("Editorial" by Michelle Iwen) Abstract: The 'traditional philosophical... more