Matthew Ratcliffe

Feelings of Being

Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality

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Produktbeschreibung

Feelings of Being is the first philosophical account of the nature, role and variety of existential feelings in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. These include feelings of familiarity, unfamiliarity, estrangement, isolation, emptiness, belonging, etc. It will be valuable for all philosophers and psychiatrists interested in emotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780199206469
• ISBN-10: 0199206465
• Artikelnr.: 24766673

Autorenporträt

Matthew Ratcliffe is Reader in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He works primarily on phenomenology, philosophical psychology and philosophy of psychiatry. He is author of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor, with Daniel Hutto, of Folk Psychology Re-assessed (Springer, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I - The Structure of Existential Feeling
1: Emotions and bodily feelings
2: Existential feelings
3: The phenomenology of touch
Part II - Varieties of Existential Feeling in Psychiatric Illness
4: Body and world
5: Feeling and belief in the Capgras delusion
6: Feelings of deadness and depersonalization
7: Existential feeling in schizophrenia
Part III - Existential Feeling and Philosophical Thought
8: What William James really said
9: Stance, feeling and belief
10: Pathologies of existential feeling