
Knowing by Heart
Loving As Participation and Critique
Anthony J. Steinbock(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. September 2021
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8101-4403-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on and developing the phenomenological work of figures such as Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique provides an account of the various feelings and feeling-states that pertain to matters of the heart. Anthony J. Steinbock's work investigates the special kind of knowing that is revealed most profoundly through love.
Knowing by Heart describes the movement of loving as a participation that bears on all beings. Eschewing the dichotomy of rationalism and sensibility that has dominated discussions of love and emotion, Steinbock understands the heart as a vast schema ranging from the deepest loving to affects and felt conditions. The book brings into focus the importance of a full-bodied relational account of a normative critique based in emotion. From a phenomenological description of diverse feelings to the normativity of loving as the discernment of the heart, this work evaluates hating's relation to loving. At the basis of all this is a phenomenological and philosophical anthropology in response to the basic question: In reality, who and what are we?
Knowing by Heart describes the movement of loving as a participation that bears on all beings. Eschewing the dichotomy of rationalism and sensibility that has dominated discussions of love and emotion, Steinbock understands the heart as a vast schema ranging from the deepest loving to affects and felt conditions. The book brings into focus the importance of a full-bodied relational account of a normative critique based in emotion. From a phenomenological description of diverse feelings to the normativity of loving as the discernment of the heart, this work evaluates hating's relation to loving. At the basis of all this is a phenomenological and philosophical anthropology in response to the basic question: In reality, who and what are we?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-4403-3 (9780810144033)
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Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Schema of the Heart
1. Feelings and Feeling-States
2. The Beloved in Phenomenological Perspective
3. Loving as Participating Being
4. Participating Being Erotically
5. The Motivation of Critique and Thinking Freely
6. Inciting Critique as the Discernment of the Heart
7. Normativity and Loving
8. Hating as Contrary to Loving
Conclusion: Loving, Hating, and Who We Are
Appendix 1: More Technical Distinctions within the Schema of the Heart
Appendix 2: Reflection and Phenomenological Reflexion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Schema of the Heart
1. Feelings and Feeling-States
2. The Beloved in Phenomenological Perspective
3. Loving as Participating Being
4. Participating Being Erotically
5. The Motivation of Critique and Thinking Freely
6. Inciting Critique as the Discernment of the Heart
7. Normativity and Loving
8. Hating as Contrary to Loving
Conclusion: Loving, Hating, and Who We Are
Appendix 1: More Technical Distinctions within the Schema of the Heart
Appendix 2: Reflection and Phenomenological Reflexion
Notes
Bibliography
Index