Phenomenology and Perspectives on the Heart (Contributions to Phenomenology, 117)

This edited collection marks a new wave of international and philosophical scholarship on “the heart”- that rich dimension of our emotional being in the world. This text addresses the relation between feeling and knowing and investigates whether or not the heart has its own way of cognition and critique. This book takes up the emotional turn in philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular, advancing this field through innovative and original perspectives. The contributions come from philosophers working in distinctive, yet overlapping areas of research. Introduction to Phenomenology and Perspectives on the Heart Contents Part I: In Dialogue with the Heart Chapter 1: Kardia in the Pauline Anthropology 1 Introduction 2 Person and Heart 3 Notes on Reading the Pauline Letters 4 Key Terms in the Pauline Anthropology 5 Circumcision of the Heart Bibliography Chapter 2: Guarding the Heart: The Phenomenality of the Heart in Early Christian Asceticism 1 The Context of Asceticism 2 Phenomenology and Asceticism 3 The Heart as the Locus of Thoughts 4 The Heart as the Seat of Affect 5 The Heart as the Core of the Person 6 Phenomenological Implications References Ancient Sources Contemporary Sources Chapter 3: The Constitutive Roles of the Heart and Heartlessness for Personhood in Edith Stein and Gerda Walther 1 Stein on the Soul, Heart, and Soullessness 2 Gerda Walther on the Soul and Heart 3 Ruptures and Displacements of the Soul and Heart in the Person 4 Conclusion Bibliography Part II: Orientations and Dimensions of the Heart Chapter 4: Taking Emotion Far Out 1 ∙ 2 ∙ 3 ∙ 4 ∙ 5 ∙ Bibliography Chapter 5: Feelings and Feeling-States in the Schema of the Heart 1 Introduction 2 Distinction Between Feeling and Feeling-States 3 Auto-Affection and the Relation Between Feelings and Feeling-States 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 6: Feeling Vulnerable: Phenomenological Dimensions of Affectivity 1 The Concept of Vulnerability 2 Understanding Harm: Bodily Horizons of Vulnerability 3 Feeling Vulnerable, Fear, and Harmfulness 4 The Fragility of Values: The Positive Valence of Vulnerability Bibliography Chapter 7: Measuring the Cardiac Lived Bodily Rhythms of the Heart of the Praying Person: An ‘Irréalisable’? 1 Introduction 2 The Heart: A Twofold Cardial Unity as a Theme for a Research Program 3 The Self-Descriptions of the Prayer of the Heart by Hesychast Monks: With What Kind of First-Person Experience of the Prayer of the Heart Do We Have to Do? 4 Some Results of the Emphiline Research Program on Surprise, Depression and Emotions 5 Measuring the Attentional Moves of Buddhist Monks: Some Recent Thrusts 6 Concluding Perspectives: The Epistemological Framework of the Heart as a Twofold Experience Bibliography Part III: Emotions of the Heart Chapter 8: My Heart Is Yours: The Phenomenology of Self-Revelation in Affective Consciousness 1 Introduction 2 Affective Consciousness and the Feeling of Being an Object 2.1 Affective Consciousness 2.2 Affective Self-Revelation in “The Look” 3 Auto-Affection and the Fissure of Selfhood 4 Love as Self-Revelation 4.1 Love as Self-Constituting and Self-Interrupting 4.2 Love as a Moral Emotion of Self-Givenness and Possibility 5 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 9: Personal Love: Feeling from the Depths 1 The Egoic Depths of Loving 2 Endless Self-Disclosure 3 Principles of Organization 4 Incomparability and Absoluteness 5 Transitivity of Care References Chapter 10: From Reason to Love? Or from Love to Reason? The Role of Instincts 1 Introduction 2 Vicissitudes of Love 3 Experiential Stages of Love 4 From Love to Reason: Husserl’s Fichte 5 From Reason to Love 6 Intriguing Questions Bibliography Chapter 11: The Phenomenology of Joy: A Case Study in Emotional Intentionality 1 Introduction 2 Moments of Joy 2.1 The Moment of Valuing Directed at an Object 2.2 Joy as a Reaction 2.3 Joy as a Mood 3 The Object of Joy 4 On the Appropriateness or Legitimacy of Joy 5 The Laws of Joy 6 Joy and Alterity 7 Conclusion References Primary Texts from Husserl Secondary Texts Index