Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking (Contributions to Phenomenology (63))

Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central for shaping the space of philosophy? What is the philosophical imprint of Aristotle’s wonder, Kant’s melancholy, Kierkegaard’s anxiety or Nietzsche's shamelessness? Philosophy's Moods invites its readers to explore the above questions through diverse methodological perspectives. The collection includes fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars as well as younger and emerging voices. In pondering the place of the subjective and personal roots that thinking is typically called to overcome, the book challenges and articulates an alternative to a predominant tendency in philosophy to view the theoretical content and the affective side of thought as opposed to one another. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Moods and Philosophy....Pages 3-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Thauma Idesthai : The Mythical Origins of Philosophical Wonder....Pages 13-26 Attentiveness: A Phenomenological Study of the Relation of Memory to Mood....Pages 27-38 A Mood of Childhood in Benjamin....Pages 39-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Leibniz’s Monad: A Study in Melancholy and Harmony....Pages 53-68 “Perhaps Truth Is a Woman”: On Shame and Philosophy....Pages 69-85 Philosophy’s Nostalgia....Pages 87-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 The Birth Pangs of the Absolute: Longing and Angst in Schelling and Kierkegaard....Pages 105-121 Attunement and Disorientation: The Moods of Philosophy in Heidegger and Sartre....Pages 123-139 Anxiety and Identity: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger....Pages 141-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Kant on the Affective Moods of Morality....Pages 159-172 The Proto-Ethical Dimension of Moods....Pages 173-184 When Reason Is in a Bad Mood: A Fanonian Philosophical Portrait....Pages 185-198 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 How Death Deals with Philosophy....Pages 201-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-210 Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central for shaping the space of philosophy? What is the philosophical imprint of Aristotle's wonder, Kant's melancholy, Kierkegaard's anxiety or Nietzsche's shamelessness? Philosophy's Moods invites its readers to explore the above questions through diverse methodological perspectives. The collection includes twenty-one contributions by internationally renowned scholars as well as younger and emerging voices. In pondering the place of the subjective and personal roots that thinking is typically called to overcome, the book challenges and articulates an alternative to a predominant tendency in philosophy to view the theoretical content and the affective side of thought as opposed to one another.