Heidegger on Affect

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This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of Heidegger’s account of affective phenomena. Affective phenomena play a significant role in Heidegger’s philosophy — his analyses of mood significantly influenced diverse fields of research such as existentialism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, theology and cultural studies. Despite this, no single collection of essays has been exclusively dedicated to this theme. Comprising twelve innovative essays by leading Heidegger scholars, this volume skilfully explores the role that not only Angst plays in Heidegger’s work, but also love and boredom. Exploring the nature of affective phenomena in Heidegger, as well as the role they play in wider philosophical debates, the volume is a valuable addition to Heideggerian scholarship and beyond, enriching current debates across disciplines on the nature of human agency. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Being, Nothingness and Anxiety (Mahon O’Brien)....Pages 1-28 Heidegger: πάθος as the Thing Itself (Thomas Sheehan)....Pages 29-46 The Affects of Rhetoric and Reconceiving the Nature of Possibility (Niall Keane)....Pages 47-67 Angst as Evidence: Shifting Phenomenology’s Measure (Christos Hadjioannou)....Pages 69-104 Missing in Action: Affectivity in Being and Time (Daniel O. Dahlstrom)....Pages 105-125 Affect and Authenticity: Three Heideggerian Models of Owned Emotion (Denis McManus)....Pages 127-152 Finding Oneself, Called (Katherine Withy)....Pages 153-176 Is Profound Boredom Boredom? (Andreas Elpidorou, Lauren Freeman)....Pages 177-203 Truth, Errancy, and Bodily Dispositions in Heidegger’s Thought (Daniela Vallega-Neu)....Pages 205-226 Love as Passion: Epistemic and Existential Aspects of Heidegger’s Unknown Concept (Tatjana Noemi Tömmel)....Pages 227-244 The Ethics of Moods (François Raffoul)....Pages 245-263 Heidegger and the Affective (Un)Grounding of Politics (Jan Slaby, Gerhard Thonhauser)....Pages 265-289 Back Matter ....Pages 291-294