In this paper, I develop the concept of affective milieus by building on the recently
established notion of affective arrangements. Affective arrangements bring together the …

The last few years have seen increasing research interest in moods and atmospheres. While
this trend has been accompanied by growing interest in the history of the word Stimmung in …

I identify and then aim to resolve a tension between the psychological and existential
conceptions of boredom. The dominant view in psychology is that boredom is an emotional …

In this paper, we explore a rationalistic orientation in Western society. We suggest that this
orientation is one of the predominant ways in which Western society tends to frame …

Phenomenology's central insight is that affectivity is not an inconsequential or contingent
characteristic of human existence. Emotions, moods, sentiments, and feelings are not …

This chapter traces how Stimmung was introduced as a philosophical concept at the turn to
the 20th century in order to show how the term combined the semantic fields of atmosphere …

This article accounts for Heidegger's phenomenological concept of violence from the period
of Being and Time. Violence is relevant for Heidegger in two different contexts:(i) …

The phenomenological movement has its roots at the end of the 19th century, in the
descriptive psychology of Franz Brentano. However, its first coherent articulation was …

Fragt man danach, welche wesentlichen Neuerungen Hermann Schmitz in die Philosophie
eingeführt hat, so wird vielen wahrschein lich zunächst seine Phänomenologie der …

This thesis investigates human-robot interaction through the concept of attunement, focusing
particularly on movement and dance. I use my personal experience of speculating …