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In a shifting myriad of ways, feelings are intrinsically part of experience. This chapter will detail what feelings are, describe how they are the most fundamental constituents of experience and discuss ways of categorising or classifying them for analytic purposes. The arguments are informed by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Shotter, William Stern and Mark Johnson, along with other scholarship associated with the affective turn. However, the primary influence is the three volumes of Susanne Langer’s work Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling.
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Cromby, J. (2015). Feeling. In: Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380586_2
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