Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking

1. Front Matter

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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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5. WONDER

   1. Thauma Idesthai: The Mythical Origins of Philosophical Wonder

      • Vered Lev Kenaan

      Pages 13-26

   2. Attentiveness: A Phenomenological Study of the Relation of Memory to Mood

      • Wayne J. Froman

      Pages 27-38

   3. A Mood of Childhood in Benjamin

      • Eli Friedlander

      Pages 39-50

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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9. ANXIETY

   1. The Birth Pangs of the Absolute: Longing and Angst in Schelling and Kierkegaard

      • Bettina Bergo

      Pages 105-121

   2. Attunement and Disorientation: The Moods of Philosophy in Heidegger and Sartre

      • Stephen Mulhall

      Pages 123-139

   3. Anxiety and Identity: Beyond Husserl and Heidegger

      • Yaron Senderowicz

      Pages 141-156

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

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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.

• Affect and philosophy
• Anxiety in Heidegger
• Attunement in Heidegger
• Emotion and Thought
• Heidegger
• Melancholy and Monad
• Melancholy and philosophy
• Mood and philosophical thinking
• Moods and Philosophy
• Stimmung and philosophy
• Wonder in Ancient philosophy
• mood in Being and Time

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

  Hagi Kenaan

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

  Ilit Ferber

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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