Feelings of being alive / edited by Joerg Fingerhut and Sabine Marienberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fingerhut, Jörg.

Marienberg, Sabine.

Series:

Humanprojekt

Humanprojekt, 1868-8144

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Wakefulness.

Awareness.

Happiness.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of what characterizes feelings of being alive is a puzzling and controversial one. Are we dealing with a unique affective phenomenon or can it be integrated into existing classifications of emotions and moods? What might be the natural basis for such feelings? What could be considered their specifically human dimension? These issues are addressed by researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy of mind and emotions, psychology, and history of art.This volume contains original papers on the topic of feelings of being alive by Fiorella Battaglia, Eva-Maria Engelen, Joerg Fingerhut, Thomas Fuchs, Alice Holzhey-Kunz, Matthias Jung, Tanja Klemm, Riccardo Manzotti, Sabine Marienberg, Matthew Ratcliffe, Arbogast Schmitt, Jan Slaby, and Achim Stephan.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

How it Feels to Be Alive / Fingerhut, Joerg / Marienberg, Sabine

I. Feelings of Being

The Phenomenology of Existential Feeling / Ratcliffe, Matthew

Emotional Rationality and Feelings of Being / Slaby, Jan

An Externalist Approach to Existential Feelings: Different Feelings or Different objects? / Manzotti, Riccardo

Existentielle Gefühle und Emotionen: Intentionalität und Regulierbarkeit / Stephan, Achim

Lebendigsein. Existenzphilosophische Überlegungen zur Zweideutigkeit eines Grundgefühls / Holzhey-Kunz, Alice

II. The Sentient Organism

The Feeling of Being Alive / Fuchs, Thomas

The Body and the Experience of Presence / Fingerhut, Joerg

The Embodied Self and the Feeling of Being Alive / Battaglia, Fiorella

'Life Is (not Consciousness, but) an Immediate Act of the Intellect.' / Schmitt, Arbogast

Das Gefühl des Lebendigseins als einfache Form phänomenalen Bewusstseins. Ein aristotelischer Theorieansatz / Engelen, Eva-Maria

III. Pragmatics and Semiotics

Corpus animatum - Imago animata. Shared Image Practices in the Florentine Church SS. Annunziata in the Renaissance / Klemm, Tanja

Hintergrunderleben und semiotische Generalisierung / Jung, Matthias

Bilder des Todes und Formen der Lebendigkeit / Marienberg, Sabine

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613940087

9781283627634

1283627639

9783110246599

3110246597

OCLC:

811962845