What Can We Learn From Mood?
Heidegger On Reason and Emotion
“To a green thought in a green shade.”—Andrew Marvell
One of Heidegger’s core insights is that we cannot separate mood (Stimmung) and understanding (Verstehen). When we think, we always have an attitude. And when we have an attitude it is because it is accompanied by an implicit take on how things stand.
Heidegger seems to be trodding a middle ground in a…
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