Wherever we move, in a Heideggerian way or another, we have the experience of affective states. Whether we are happy about the publication of this volume, or whether we are surprised by the absence of any author. We have yet to find a neutral region in our lives. However, it is curious that an inseparable element of any human behavior has occupied a peripheral place in much of the philosophical analyzes of the western tradition. In fact, feelings, affections or emotions were seen as obstacles on the sober path to knowledge. Martin Heidegger, one of the most important contemporary philosophers, will revive the question about affect and will emphasize, ontologically, its determining character. Faced with the hegemony of technical neutrality that makes everything indifferent, the affective field means for him a region that can lead to the overcoming of current conceptions of the human being, all focused on a conception of the human being as a rational animal. The present volume seeks, from texts by renowned authors, to think from Heidegger's hand the problem of affectivity.
Published: Jul 23, 2015