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Emotional-Narrative Existence

Author(s): Chavdar Dimitrov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Existentialism, Analytic Philosophy, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: affectivity; emotionality; sensitivity; disposedness; Befindlichkeit; narrativity; self-understanding;

Summary/Abstract: The article is about a dimension, referable by the concepts of ‘affectivity’, ‘emotionality’ and ‘sensitivity’. The issue addresses both the “disorder of habitual complicity with the world” and the fact that “our acting, talking, feeling and thinking begins as a response to ‘something’ indeterminable that comes from elsewhere”, i.e. to the narrative life experience in which there is enduring/undergoing or “being overwhelmed“ (Sabeva 2016: 241, 244). The subject-matter sets the task of explaining a common field. At its basis, sensitivity is the initial appearance of behaviors and things, because moods (Stimmungen) “throw” us or co-constitute us in the world; emotions are part of our worldly comportment where potential narrativity is equally important. Social attitude, which has its origin in existential “disposedness” (Heidegger 2005: §§ 29–31), sharеs some extraordinaries and gaps. In this process a limit of the self is reached, when one accepts the inevitability of what is being experienced, and self-understanding becomes alienated from one’s own position. The claim of the research is to add a point to the understanding of social integration in interdisciplinary studies.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 75-97
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bulgarian