Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life beyond the Subject (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

In Turning Emotion Inside Out , Edward S. Casey challenges the commonplace assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, hearts, or bodies. Instead, he invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally, although not entirely, emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from felt interiority to the emotions located in the world around us, beyond the confines of subjectivity. This book begins with a brief critique of internalist views of emotion that hold that feelings are sequestered within a subject. Casey affirms that while certain emotions are felt as resonating within our subjectivity, many others are experienced as occurring outside any such subjectivity. These include intentional or expressive feelings that transpire between ourselves and others, such as an angry exchange between two people, as well as emotions or affects that come to us from beyond ourselves. Casey claims that such far‐out emotions must be recognized in a full picture of affective life. In this way, the book proposes to “turn emotion inside out.” Contents Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: The Extraversion of Emotion Part 1. Understanding Emotion: Ancient to Modern Views 1. Ancient Anger: Plato, Aristotle, and Early Democracy 2. Turning Emotion Outside-In: From Seneca to Descartes 3. Emotion Everywhere: Spinoza 4. Kant and the Place of the Sublime Part 2. Emotional Placescapes: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion 5. The Interpersonal Domain: Merleau- Ponty and Scheler 6. Ahmed’s Contribution: Emotion Splayed out between Signifying Surfaces 7. Affective Attunement and Emotion in the Crowd: Stern, Le Bon, and Incipient Fascism 8. Following Freud Down Under the Subject Part 3. Toward a Prospective Periphenomenology of Emotion 9. Emotional Edges and Interembodiment 10. Elasticity and Transmissibility of Emotion 11. Atmosphere and Affective Environment Epilogue: Outwardizing Emotion Appendix: Art and Affect in the Wake of the Holocaust Notes Index Challenges the assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, hearts, or bodies. Instead, Edward Casey invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally, although not entirely, emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from felt interiority to the emotions located in the world around us. "Edward S. Casey invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from the subjective sources of emotion to what reaches us from outside the domain of the subject"-- Provided by publisher "Edward S. Casey invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally emerging from outside and around the self, redirecting our attention from the subjective sources of emotion to what reaches us from outside the domain of the subject"-- Fourni par l'éditeur