Fear, hope, resentment, grace. For a phenomenology of the state of neglect
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Stefano Cardini
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/51
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 61-74 File size 86 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2014-051005
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The aim of this paper is to explore the relations between emotions like fear, hope and resentment, in order to disclose the role played by imagination in gaining or, on the contrary, losing a state of mind, that could be named ‘grace’. By following some of Spinoza’s suggestions, I browse through Kafka’s last novel Der Bau, with the purpose to describe a prototypical quasi-paranoic Ego, who shies away from any sound relationship with the Other and illusorily takes refuge in him/herself. I discuss this condition using Ludwig Binswanger’s concept of Verstiegenheit as form of ‘failed existence’. Finally, Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenological inquiry into imagination morale allows to clarify the role played by imagination in the process leading to ethical free deliberations.
Stefano Cardini, Paura, speranza, risentimento e grazia Per una fenomenologia dell’abbandono in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 51/2014, pp 61-74, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2014-051005