Surprise: An Emotion? [electronic resource] /
Depraz, Natalie.editor.
Steinbock, Anthony J.editor.
This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries. The main question it examines is whether surprise is an emotion. It uses two main theoretical frameworks to do so: psychology, in which surprise is commonly considered a primary emotion, and philosophy, in which surprise is related to passions as opposed to reason. The book explores whether these views on surprise are satisfying or sufficient. It looks at the extent to which surprise is also a cognitive phenomenon and primitively embedded in language, and the way in which surprise is connected to personhood, the interpersonal, and moral emotions. Many philosophers of different traditions, a number of experimental studies conducted over the last decades, recent works in linguistics, and ancestral wisdom testimonies refer to surprise as a crucial experience of both rupture and openness in bodily and inner life. However, surprise is a theme that has not been dealt with directly and systematically in philosophy, in the sciences, in linguistics, or in spiritual traditions. This volume accomplishes just that.
Part 1. Surprise and the Heart -- Chapter 1. “Surprise as Emotion: Between Startle and Humility” (Anthony J. Steinbock) -- Chapter 2. “Surprise, Valence, Emotion: The Multivectorial Integrative Cardio-Phenomenology of Surprise” (Natalie Depraz) -- Part 2. Surprise and Depression -- Chapter 3. “The Temporal Dynamic of Emotional Emergence, Surprise, and Depression” (Thomas Desmidt) -- Chapter 4. “Animal and Human Models of Startle, Emotion, and Depression” (Bruno Brizard) -- Part 3. Surprise and the Body -- Chapter 5. “If The Body Is Part of Our Discourse, Why Not Let It Speak?: Five Critical Perspectives” (Maxine Sheets-Johnstone) -- Chapter 6. “Glancing at the Surface of Surprise”(Edward S. Casey) -- Part 4. Surprise in Hermeneutics -- Chapter 7. “Call and Conversion on the Road to Damascus: An Exercise in the Hermeneutics of Surprise” Jeffery Bloechl) -- Chapter 8. “Surprise, Meaning and Emotion” ( Claudia Serban) -- Part 5. Surprise in Linguistics -- Chapter 9. “Surprised? Why? The Expression of Surprise in French and in English: An Experimental Approach” (Pascale Goutéraux) -- Chapter 10. “Describing and Expressing Surprise” ( Agnès Celle, et. al.).
This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries. The main question it examines is whether surprise is an emotion. It uses two main theoretical frameworks to do so: psychology, in which surprise is commonly considered a primary emotion, and philosophy, in which surprise is related to passions as opposed to reason. The book explores whether these views on surprise are satisfying or sufficient. It looks at the extent to which surprise is also a cognitive phenomenon and primitively embedded in language, and the way in which surprise is connected to personhood, the interpersonal, and moral emotions. Many philosophers of different traditions, a number of experimental studies conducted over the last decades, recent works in linguistics, and ancestral wisdom testimonies refer to surprise as a crucial experience of both rupture and openness in bodily and inner life. However, surprise is a theme that has not been dealt with directly and systematically in philosophy, in the sciences, in linguistics, or in spiritual traditions. This volume accomplishes just that.
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