Feeling together and caring with one another : a contribution to the debate on collective affective intentionality
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Feeling together and caring with one another : a contribution to the debate on collective affective intentionality
(Studies in the philosophy of sociality, v. 7)
Springer, c2016
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Note
Bibliography: p. 267-275
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the human ability to participate in moments of joint feeling. It presents an answer to the question concerning the nature of our faculty to share in what might be called episodes of collective affective intentionality. The proposal develops the claim that our capacity to participate in such episodes is grounded in an ability central to our human condition: our capacity to care with one another about certain things.
The author provides a phenomenologically adequate account of collective affective intentionality that takes seriously the idea that feelings are at the core of our emotional relation to the world. He details a form of group emotional orientation that relies on the fact that the participating individuals have come to share a number of concerns. Readers will learn that at the heart of a collective affective intentional episode, one does not merely find a set of shared concerns, but also a particular mode of caring.
In the end, the argument presented in this monograph makes plausible the idea that the emotions through which humans participate in moments of affective intentional community express our nature. In addition, it shows that the debate on collective affective intentionality also permits us to better understand the relationship between two conflicting philosophical pictures of ourselves: the idea that we are essentially social beings and the claim that we are creatures for whom our personal existence is an issue.
Thus, aiming at an elucidation of the nature of our ability to feel together, the book offers a detailed account of what it is to situationally express our human nature by caring about something in a properly joint manner.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Feeling Together: A Philosophical Problem.- Chapter 2. Felt Understanding: A View of Affective Intentionality.- Chapter 3. Our Ability to Feel-Towards Together: Collective Affective Intentionality Preliminarily Conceived.- Chapter 4. Shared Feelings and Joint Feeling: The Problem of Collective Affective Intentionality Specified.- Part II. Caring with One Another: A Proposal Concerning Our Ability to Feel Together.- Chapter 5. Affectively-Enabled Shared Belongingness to the World.- Chapter 6. Being Together and Caring-With.- Chapter 7. Caring (with One Another) and Existing as (Our Group).- Chapter 8. Being Our Possibilities and Feeling Together.- Index.
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