There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific
interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that
people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on
standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of
unreality, heightened existence, surreality, familiarity,
unfamiliarity, estrangement, strangeness, isolation, emptiness,
belonging, being at home in the world, being at one with things,
significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Such feelings
might be referred to as 'existential' because they comprise a
changeable sense of being part of a world. Existential feelings
have not been systematically explored until now, despite the
important role that they play in our lives and the devastating
effects that disturbances of existential feeling can have in
psychiatric illness.
Feelings of Being is the first ever philosophical account of the
nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric
illness and in everyday life. In this book, Matthew Ratcliffe
proposes that existential feelings form a distinctive group by
virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they
constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are
responsible for our sense of reality. The book explains how
something can be a bodily feeling and, at the same time, a sense of
reality and belonging. It then explores the role of changed feeling
in psychiatric illness, showing how an account of existential
feeling can help us to understand experiential changes that occur
in a range of conditions, including depression, circumscribed
delusions, depersonalisation and schizophrenia. The book also
addresses the contribution madeby existential feelings to religious
experience and to philosophical thought.
Written in a clear, non-technical style throughout, it will be
valuable for philosophers, clinicians, students, and researchers
working in a wide range of disciplines.
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