TORCH Oxford Phenomenology Network is hosting a seminar with Francesca Brencio (Western Sydney University) ‘Moods, emotions and Befindlichkeit: A Pathway into Heidegger’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology’.
This talk focuses on the relevance of affects or passions in Heidegger’s understanding of human being in terms of “living life” (das Lebende), from the early years of his academic career to Being and Time.
This relevance is rooted in Heidegger’s relationship with Aristotle, a central point of his philosophical education, through to the Natorp-Bericht, and to his work published in 1927. The pathway toward affects leads Heidegger to conceive the notion of Befindlichkeit as something radically new in the understanding of human being. Befindlichkeit allows Heidegger not only to radicalize the Husserlian phenomenological approach, but also to overcome the notion of intentionality. Later the talk will explore the centrality of moods and emotions in Heidegger’s hermeneutical phenomenology and its legacy within clinical practices.
Dr. Francesca Brencio is Adjunct Researcher at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the Western Sydney University (Australia). She is also a member of the Oxford Phenomenology Network at TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities at the University of Oxford.
Her work focuses on the relationship between phenomenology and psychiatry with particular attention to Heidegger’s existential analytic of human being and its implications for psychiatry, as the Zollikon’s experience shows. She has published on a wide range of topics related to the philosophy of Hegel and Heidegger, in several collaborative book projects and philosophical and medical journals, focusing on melancholia, anxiety, trauma and temporality. She is author of three monographs in Italian: one on Heidegger, Hegel and the concept of negativity (2010); one on several aspects of Heidegger’s thought (2012); and one on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (2015). She is one of the invited authors of The Oxford Handbook in Phenomenological Psychopathology for OUP, editied by Giovanni Stanghellini, Matthew Broome et al.
*Please note change of time from previous seminars*
Oxford Phenomenology Network
Contact name: Erin Lafford
Contact email: erin.lafford@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Open to all
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