Winner, 2015 CSCP Symposium Book AwardMoral Emotionsbuilds upon the philosophical theory of persons begun in
Phenomenology and Mysticismand marks a new stage of phenomenology. Author Anthony J. Steinbock finds personhood analyzing key emotions, called moral emotions.
Moral Emotionsoffers a systematic account of the moral emotions, described here as pride, shame, and guilt as emotions of self-givenness; repentance, hope, and despair as emotions of possibility; and trusting, loving, and humility as emotions of otherness.
The author argues these reveal basic structures of interpersonal experience. By exhibiting their own kind of cognition and evidence, the moral emotions not only help to clarify the meaning of person, they reveal novel concepts of freedom, critique, and normativity. As such, they are able to engage our contemporary social imaginaries at the impasse of modernity and postmodernity.
Winner, 2015 CSCP Symposium Book Award
Moral Emotions builds upon the philosophical theory of persons begun inPhenomenology and Mysticismand marks a new stage of phenomenology. Author Anthony J. Steinbock finds personhood analyzing key emotions, called moral emotions.Moral Emotionsoffers a systematic account of the moral emotions, described here as pride, shame, and guilt as emotions of self-givenness; repentance, hope, and despair as emotions of possibility; and trusting, loving, and humility as emotions of otherness.
ANTHONY J. STEINBOCKis a professor of philosophy and the director of the Phenomenology Research Center at Southern Illinois University. He is the editor of Northwestern University Press’s Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy series and the editor in chief ofContinental Philosophy Review;his previous books includePhenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religil37
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