Central and East European
Society for Phenomenology

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The features of self-feeling

Gerhard Kreuch

pp. 123-148

Abstract

The third part presents the main claim of the book. In a nutshell, it argues that self-consciousness must be understood as permeated with affectivity. Self-consciousness is at its core an affective phenomenon, it is self-feeling. Self-feeling is an aspect of our fundamental affectivity. It can be understood as existential feeling. This chapter summarizes the main features of self-feeling building on the first and second part of the book. It is a pre-reflective, pre-propositional, bodily feeling that shapes our space of possibilities. It is the affective disclosure of individual existence. The chapter closes with clarifications to potential questions, such as why it is a feeling, how we can be oblivious of it, if animals can have self-feeling, and if there is one or many self-feelings.

Publication details

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Kreuch Gerhard (2019) Self-feeling: can self-consciousness be understood as a feeling?. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 123-148

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30789-9_9

Full citation:

Kreuch Gerhard (2019) The features of self-feeling, In: Self-feeling, Dordrecht, Springer, 123–148.