Emotion and Embodiment: Fragile OntologyThis wide-ranging work explores what the emotions, if approached on their own terms, can tell us about our world and our selves. By doing so sensitively, it fills a missing space in Western philosophy, literary theory and psychology, in which the emotions are seen for the first time as the primary way of understanding experience through the depth of the sensual-perceptual, rather than as mere handmaidens to reason or biology. The work weaves together diverse philosophical and literary works, from Merleau-Ponty to Melville, Duras to James, contrasts Eastern and Western perspectives, and arrives at a new vision of reality as becoming and philosophy as fragile ontology. |
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Transcendence | 5 |
An Ineradicable Source | 34 |
The Homecomingof Emotions Inhabitation | 65 |
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