Surprise: An Emotion?

Examines surprise through an interdisciplinary lens
Promotes an enriched descriptive understanding of a complex and multidimensional intentionality
Details the receptive phenomenon of both surprising and being surprised

Examines surprise through an interdisciplinary lens Promotes an enriched descriptive understanding of a complex and multidimensional intentionality Details the receptive phenomenon of both surprising and being surprised

Auteur

Natalie Depraz is Professor of Philosophy, Rouen Normandy University and University Member at the Husserl Archives, ENS-CNRS, Paris. She works in phenomenology, psychology, Christianity and Buddhism, and its articulations with cognitive sciences and psychiatry and is involved in developing first person methodologies as crossed with third person experimental analysis in the general framework of microphenomenology. Book publications include for example Attention et vigilance. A la croisée de la phénoménologie et des sciences cognitives (PUF, Epiméthée, 2014, am. Transl. with Northwestern in prep.), On becoming aware: a pragmatics of experiencing (with P. Vermersch & F. J. Varela) (Benjamins Press, 2003), Lucidité du corps. De l'empirisme transcendantal en phénoménologie (Kluwer, 2001),Transcendance et incarnation. L'altérité à soi comme intersubjectivité chez E. Husserl (Vrin, 1995). She is Editor-in-Chief, Alter: Revue de Phénoménologie, Paris and co-edited *Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2001-2006).

Anthony Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy and Interim Chair, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Director, Phenomenology Research Center. He works in the areas of phenomenology, social ontology, aesthetics, and religious philosophy. Book publications include,It's Not about the Gift: From Givenness to Loving (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2018), Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2017), Moral Emotions: Reclaiming the Evidence of the Heart (Northwestern, 2014; 2015 Symposium Book Award), Phenomenology and Mysticism:* The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana, 2007/2009; 2009 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology), Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl* (Northwestern, 1995). He is the translator of Edmund Husserl, *Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis: *Lectures on Transcendental Logic (Kluwer, 2001). He serves as Editor-in-Chief, Continental Philosophy Review, and as General Editor, Northwestern University Press "SPEP" Series.

Contenu
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.). <p