Overview
- 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)
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INTRODUCTION
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Editors: Hagi Kenaan, Ilit Ferber
Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1503-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1502-8Published: 13 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3825-6Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1503-5Published: 13 August 2011
Series ISSN: 0923-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Psychology, Ethics