Overview
- Offers a thorough research on anxiety in its various facets and dimensions according to the new method of “phenomenological polyphony”
- Explores new perspectives on the complex relation between anxiety, fear, and trauma with reference to different disciplines, such as art history, psychopathology, and cultural anthropology
- Develops new categories for the understanding of anxiety, such as the quasi-intentional imaginative anticipation
Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica (PHAE, volume 235)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
When is anxiety justified? When does anxiety cease to function as an effective and reasonable signal preventing imminent threats, and when does it become an invasive projection of our own ghosts? This volume presents a deep philosophical inquiry into the affective phenomenon that can both protect us from danger and be a danger in itself.
Moreover, the author explores the relevance of anxiety in the context of philosophical anthropology. In various theoretical frameworks, the difference between anxiety and fear serves as a criterion for distinguishing human beings from animals in particular. Accordingly, research on anxiety is crucial for defining human nature as such.
The analysis presented in this volume shows how an alteration of the dimensions of embodiment, time-consciousness, and phantasy takes place in anxiety. Furthermore, the author elaborates on new categories for understanding of anxiety, such as quasi-intentional imaginative anticipation, which eludes the traditional differentiation between perception and imagination. The work culminates in a phenomenological analysis of five essential traits of anxiety: 1. its quasi-intentional imaginative anticipation; 2. its negative inspiration; 3. the recurrence of bodily manifestations; 4. the interlocution with an alien power; 5. its negative teleology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stefano Micali is Professor at the KU Leuven and the head of the Centre of the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy. He has published over 50 articles in different languages (English, German, Italian, French, and Dutch) in various areas of research ranging from psychopathology to religion, from political philosophy to aesthetics. He is the author of four monographic books: Überschüsse der Erfahrung (2008), Esperienze temporali (2008), Tra l’altro e se stessi (2020) and Phenomenology of Anxiety (2022). He has co-edited several books on the relation between philosophy and psychopathology such as Bilderfahrung und Psychopathologie (Fink Verlag, 2014) and Das überforderte Subjekt (Suhrkamp, 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phenomenology of Anxiety
Authors: Stefano Micali
Series Title: Phaenomenologica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89018-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89017-9Published: 31 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89020-9Published: 01 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89018-6Published: 30 March 2022
Series ISSN: 0079-1350
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0331
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 222
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Continental Philosophy