The emotions occupy a fundamental place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, the phenomenology of the emotions has until recently remained a relatively neglected topic. The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion is an outstanding guide and reference source to this important and fascinating topic. Comprising forty-nine chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers the following topics:
- historical perspectives, including Brentano, Husserl, Sartre, Levinas and Arendt;
- contemporary debates, including existential feelings, emotion, affectivity, art and morality;
- self-directed and individual emotions, including happiness, grief, self-esteem and shame;
- social emotions, including sympathy, collective emotions, political emotions and aggressive emotions;
- borderline cases of emotion, including solidarity, trust, pain, and forgiveness and revenge.
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