Overview
- Examines surprise through an interdisciplinary lens
- Promotes an enriched descriptive understanding of a complex and multidimensional intentionality
- Details the receptive phenomenon of both surprising and being surprised
Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 97)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surprise and the Heart
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Surprise and Depression
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Surprise in Hermeneutics
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Surprise in Linguistics
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About this book
This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries. The main question it examines is whether surprise is an emotion. It uses two main theoretical frameworks to do so: psychology, in which surprise is commonly considered a primary emotion, and philosophy, in which surprise is related to passions as opposed to reason. The book explores whether these views on surprise are satisfying or sufficient. It looks at the extent to which surprise is also a cognitive phenomenon and primitively embedded in language, and the way in which surprise is connected to personhood, the interpersonal, and moral emotions.
Many philosophers of different traditions, a number of experimental studies conducted over the last decades, recent works in linguistics, and ancestral wisdom testimonies refer to surprise as a crucial experience of both rupture and openness in bodily and inner life. However, surprise is a theme that has not been dealt with directly and systematically in philosophy, in the sciences, in linguistics, or in spiritual traditions. This volume accomplishes just that.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Natalie Depraz is Professor of Philosophy, Rouen Normandy University and University Member at the Husserl Archives, ENS-CNRS, Paris. She works in phenomenology, psychology, Christianity and Buddhism, and its articulations with cognitive sciences and psychiatry and is involved in developing first person methodologies as crossed with third person experimental analysis in the general framework of microphenomenology. Book publications include for example Attention et vigilance. A la croisée de la phénoménologie et des sciences cognitives (PUF, Epiméthée, 2014, am. Transl. with Northwestern in prep.), On becoming aware: a pragmatics of experiencing (with P. Vermersch & F. J. Varela) (Benjamins Press, 2003), Lucidité du corps. De l’empirisme transcendantal en phénoménologie (Kluwer, 2001),Transcendance et incarnation. L’altérité à soi comme intersubjectivité chez E. Husserl (Vrin, 1995). She is Editor-in-Chief, Alter: Revue de Phénoménologie, Paris and co-edited Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2001-2006).
Anthony Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy and Interim Chair, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Director, Phenomenology Research Center. He works in the areas of phenomenology, social ontology, aesthetics, and religious philosophy. Book publications include,It’s Not about the Gift: From Givenness to Loving (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2018), Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2017), Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart (Northwestern, 2014; 2015 Symposium Book Award), Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana, 2007/2009; 2009 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology), Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Northwestern, 1995). He is the translator of Edmund Husserl, Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: Lectures on Transcendental Logic (Kluwer, 2001). He serves as Editor-in-Chief, Continental Philosophy Review, and as General Editor, Northwestern University Press “SPEP” Series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surprise: An Emotion?
Editors: Natalie Depraz, Anthony J. Steinbock
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98657-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98656-2Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98657-9Published: 09 January 2019
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science, Psychology Research