R. PARKER, I. QUEPONS (EDS.), PHENOMENOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, SYSTEMATICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, New York: Routledge, 2018. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 16. ISBN 9780429470141

Abstract

Is there a chance to grasp the reachness and the variety of my emotional feeling to reflect upon it, not reducing it to the irrational state of mind or primary instinctive reaction? How can we describe the structure of emotional state, and does it affects our (self)understanding? How do I perceive something as valuable, what does it mean to be affected, to feel hatred or shame? The presented review highlights these issues together with the main historical topics and some other notions, that has been focused upon in the essays, included into the volume of Phenomenology of Emotions, Systematical and Historical Perspectives (2018). The early phenomenological projects of A. Pfaender, E. Husserl, M. Scheler and E. Stein, that has been introduced from the historical point of view, provide a range of questions for phenomenological theory of emotions to be developed further. In this review, I provide a brief overview of the contributions to this volume to show how this new “regional ontology” has emerged and what is the possible role of phenomenology in the “interplay” of arguments of analytical philosophy, cognitive and neurobiological approaches to consciousness and emotional sphere.