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Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Hagi Kenaan

    1. , Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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  2. Ilit Ferber

    1. , Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel

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  • First systematic and comprehensive contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate on the nature of moods
  • An interrogation of the inseparable bond between mood and the possibility of thinking
  • Presents a strong statement in the debate on moods, a debate which in recent years has become central to the contemporary philosophical discourse
  • 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

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 63)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. INTRODUCTION

    1. Moods and Philosophy

      • Hagi Kenaan, Ilit Ferber
      Pages 3-10

  4. Wonder

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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  6. Melancholy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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  7. MELANCHOLY

    1. Leibniz’s Monad: A Study in Melancholy and Harmony

      • Ilit Ferber
      Pages 53-68

    2. “Perhaps Truth Is a Woman”: On Shame and Philosophy

      • Daniel Strassberg
      Pages 69-85

    3. Philosophy’s Nostalgia

      • Jeff Malpas
      Pages 87-101

  8. Anxiety

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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  10. Otherness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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  11. OTHERNESS

    1. Kant on the Affective Moods of Morality

      • Ido Geiger
      Pages 159-172

    2. The Proto-Ethical Dimension of Moods

      • Shlomo Cohen
      Pages 173-184

    3. When Reason Is in a Bad Mood: A Fanonian Philosophical Portrait

      • Lewis R. Gordon
      Pages 185-198

  12. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

    Hagi Kenaan

  • , Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Ilit Ferber

About the editors

Hagi Kenaan teaches philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. In addition to studies in phenomenology, aesthetics and the philosophy of art, he is the author of The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language (Columbia University Press, 2005) and Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as an Optics (Tel-Aviv, 2008).

Ilit Ferber is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Tel-Aviv University. She has published articles on Benjamin, Freud, Brecht and Herder. She recently completed a book manuscript entitled Melancholy and Philosophy: Walter Benjamin’s Early Writings , and her current research deals with the relationship between pain and theories of the origin of language in Rousseau, Herder, Freud, Benjamin and Wittgenstein.

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