Affect, Uptake and Existential Feeling
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existential feeling, mood, affective injustice, uptakeAbstract
Recent literature on affording and denying uptake to people’s emotions has so far centred discrete emotions like anger in contexts of social oppression. To give uptake, on the dominant view, involves tracing the emotion back to its object with which it is fitting, or apt. I argue that a fuller account of affective uptake needs to account for how other categories of affective experience, such as moods and transformations in existential feeling, can also be afforded and denied uptake. I propose what I call existential humility as a possible feature of uptake of these sorts of affective experiences.
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