Enjoyment as Enriched Experience - A Theory of Affect and Its Relation to Consciousness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an "enrichment approach" that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. This "enrichment approach" draws from Alfred North Whitehead as well as the pragmatists John Dewey and William James, all of whom thought of affect as a fundamental aspect of experience rather than a special class of feelings. It also draws from recent scientific research that suggests that the dynamic repertoire of consciousness can change, effectively expanding and contracting our capacity to feel. Weaving these perspectives together, the book develops a theory that accounts for the peculiar phenomenology of affect and sheds new light on a diverse range of experiences, from everyday pleasures and pains to the special satisfactions of the arts and religious festivity. At the same time, it presents a fresh and distinctively affect-centered perspective on the nature of consciousness.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy
Release date:	February 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Nathaniel F. Barrett
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-113789-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	3-03-113789-2
Barcode:	9783031137891

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