Philosophy’s Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking

Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central for shaping the space of philosophy? What is the philosophical imprint of Aristotle’s wonder, Kant’s melancholy, Kierkegaard’s anxiety or Nietzsche's shamelessness? Philosophy's Moods invites its readers to explore the above questions through diverse methodological perspectives. The collection includes twenty-one contributions by internationally renowned scholars as well as younger and emerging voices. In pondering the place of the subjective and personal roots that thinking is typically called to overcome, the book 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.

INTRODUCTION MOODS AND PHILOSOPHY, I. Ferber and H. Kenaan.- I. WONDER THAUMA IDESTHAI: THE MYTHICAL ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHICAL WONDER, V. Lev-Kenaan.- ATTENTIVENESS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE RELATION OF MOOD TO MEMORY, W. Froman.- A MOOD OF CHILDHOOD IN BENJAMIN, E. Friedlander.- II. MELANCHOLY LEIBNIZ'S MONAD: MELANCHOLY AND HARMONY, I. Ferber.- PERHAPS TRUTH IS A WOMAN: ON SHAME AND PHILOSOPHY, D. Strassberg.- PHILOSOPHY'S NOSTALGIA, J. Malpas.- III. ANXIETY THE BIRTH PANGS OF THE ABSOLUTE: LONGING AND ANGST IN SCHELLING AND KIERKEGAARD, B. Bergo.- ATTUNEMENT AND DISORIENTATION: THE MOODS OF PHILOSOPHY IN HEIDEGGER AND SARTRE, S. Mulhall.- ANXIETY AND IDENTITY: BEYOND HUSSERL AND HEIDEGGER, Y. Senderowicz.- IV. OTHERNESS KANT ON MORAL ATTUNEMENT, I. Geiger.- THE PROTO-ETHICAL DIMENSION OF MOODS, Shlomo Cohen.- WHEN REASON IS IN A BAD MOOD: A FANONIAN PHILOSOPHICAL PORTRAIT, L. Gordon.- EPILOGUE HOW DEATH DEALS WITH PHILOSOPHY, B. Scharfstein.