Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space

Sue L. Cataldi is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Moorhead State University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction I. Depth and Embodiment 1. Flat Affects vs. Deep Emotional Experience Linguistics DinstinctionsSheer TerrorLiterary Depictions 2. Depth: Recovering the Hidden Dimension Depth as the Preception of Ecological "Affordances"Depth as Copresent ImplicationLived Distance and Living MovementsDepth as the "Dark Space" of Occlusive Permeation 3. Depth and Flesh The Flesh OntologyThe Openings of PerceptionDepth as the Dimension of the HiddenThe Intertwining at the ChiasmReversibility as Proximity Through Distance 4. Depth and Reversibility Depth as a "Break/Brake" II. Emotion, Depth, and Identity 5. Emotion and Emotional Depth Emotional Depth and Place PerceptionEmotion as a "Living Meaning"Emotion as a Carnal Idea 6. Emotions "in the Flesh" Emotion and the Reversibility ThesisEmotional Depth and 'Being as a Winding'Touch and Emotional FeelingEmbodied Politics and Border Anxiety 7. Emotional Depth and Alterations in Identity Emotion, Identity, and TimeEmotional Habits and Leaps of Perception 8. Feeling Deeply About Depth Notes Index

"After a decade or two of dominance by behaviorist thinkers, followed by another decade or two of dominance by cognitive theorists, the time is ripe for study of the emotions (and affections in general) to assume center stage. Much evidence indicates that this is indeed happening and Cataldi's work appears just in time. She is a gifted thinker, with tremendous focus and uncanny writing skills." — Robert Marrone, California State University, Sacramento