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WiSe 20/21: Online: Existentialist Theories of Emotion

Jan Slaby

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Diese Lehrveranstaltung findet vollständig online statt.

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Inspired by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and informed by Husserl, Heidegger and, after him, Sartre, developed what one could call existentialist theories of emotion. Emotions are interpreted as central manifestations of human existence, they register vital significance in matters of life, death, love, friendship, and mark a person‘s deepest commitments and attachments. While proverbially passions that are suffered or undergone, emotions anchor a person‘s most original choices and thus are key conditions of human freedom. As possible authentic expressions of a persons true self, they are perennially threatened to become inauthentic and fake. As matters of philosophical analysis, emotions promise to shed light on issues such as selfhood, agency, moral choice, the nature of value, the sources of normativity and interpersonal understanding. The seminar begins with the original texts of existentialist and phenomenologist philosophers. Based on that, newer texts from the philosophy of emotion will be studied, also some texts in the philosophy of personhood, including work on self-consciousness and action theory, will be read and discussed. The course provides an encompassing introduction to current philosophical research on emotion. This course will be taught in collaboration with Laura Candiotto. Schließen