... Max Foucault Michel Robinson David M Aesthetics value poetry epistemology perception moral ontology subjectivity mood William James What is the relation between a bird and the ear that appreciates its melody, to whom, perchance, it is more charming and significant than to any else...

...Chapter 5 focuses on the role of emotion, affect, mood, and disposition in liturgical experience. It briefly considers the ambivalent role pathos plays in the tradition and then goes on to focus on the ways in which liturgy shapes certain kinds of affective dispositions, such as compassion, peace...

...This chapter seeks to understand televisionary existence, with its complex schedule of moods, as the rhythmic organization of a life, indeed a multiplicity of lives that are not ours to live and yet in a certain sense still ours not to live. Rejecting the premise that there is fundamentally just...

...This chapter deals with the question of historical mood: how to diagnose a mood, how to avoid obvious simplifications or idealizations, how to think through the relationships between a mood and its underlying conditions, what possibilities for transformation there are, and how moods affect agency...

...This essay investigates the claims that the genius loci of a place is determined as much by the formal properties of a place as the “mood” that is carried into it and that the interpretation of an environment is primarily bodily rather than cognitive. This investigation is focuses...