Else Voigtländer: Self, Emotion, and Sociality

Foreword
Contents
About the Editor
1 Introduction: Toward a New Genealogy of the Phenomenological Movement
1.1 Else Voigtländer’s Life and Thought: An Overview
1.2 The Perception and Reception of Voigtländer’s Philosophical Work
1.3 The Structure of the Volume
References
Part I Historical Sources and Influences
2 Value in Existence: Lotze, Lipps, and Voigtländer on Feelings of Self-Worth
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Self-feeling and Value: Lotze and Lipps
2.2.1 Value, Feeling, and Existence: Fives Theses from Lotze’s Notion of Für-sich-sein
2.2.2 Lipps on Feelings of Self-Worth
2.3 Refinement Through Voigtländer: Further Phenomenological Distinctions
2.3.1 Layers of Feelings of Self-worth
2.3.2 The Dynamics and Interplay of the Layers
2.4 Other Lines of Thinking and Voigtländer’s Syntheses
2.4.1 Lotze’s and Lipps’ Axiological Realism and Nietzsche’s Genealogies
2.4.2 Vitalism, Lebensphilosophie, and Bios
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Else Voigtländer’s Thoughts on Psychoanalysis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Chronological Overview and Impact History
3.3 Voigtländer’s Appreciation and Critique of Freud (1911)
3.4 Freud’s Letter to Voigtländer (1911)
3.5 Voigtländer’s Concept of the Unconscious (1916)
3.6 Welfare Education and Psychoanalysis (1928)
3.7 Voigtländer in Psychoanalytic Discourses
3.8 Similarities to Later Developments in Psychoanalysis
3.9 Themes and Elements
3.10 Later Developments in Psychoanalysis
3.11 Comments
3.12 Conclusion
References
Part II Affectivity and Value
4 Between Love and Benevolence. Voigtländer, Pfänder, and Walther on the Phenomenology of Sentiments
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The General Phenomenological Analysis of Actual Sentiments: Voigtländer’s Debts on Pfänder
4.3 Voigtländer on the Gap Between Love and Benevolence
4.4 Assessing Voigtänder’s Phenomenology of Sentiments
4.4.1 A Challenge to Pfänder
4.4.2 A Challenge to Walther
4.4.3 Wrapping Up
4.5 Conclusion
References
5 Erotic Love and the Value of the Beloved
5.1 What is Erotic Love?
5.2 Erotic Love and the Value of the Beloved
5.3 The Philosophical Significances of Voigtländer’s Phenomenology of Love
5.3.1 Historical Significance
5.3.2 Significance in a Contemporary Context
References
6 Ressentiment and Self-deception in Early Phenomenology: Voigtländer, Scheler, and Reinach
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Else Voigtländer: Ressentiment as Tension Between Vital and Conscious Feelings of Self-worth
6.2.1 The Vital Feelings of Inferiority and the Conscious Uplifting of Self-worth
6.2.2 Ressentiment as a Feeling of Self-worth
6.2.3 The Inversion of Values and the Repression of the Feeling of Inferiority
6.3 Max Scheler: Ressentiment as Progression of Feeling and Falsification of Values
6.3.1 Progression of Feeling, Repression of Negative Affective States, and Powerlessness
6.3.2 Ressentiment as a Lasting Affective Attitude
6.3.3 Illusory Devaluation, Specific Value Blindness, and the Stages Toward Falsification
6.4 Adolf Reinach: Ressentiment as a Promotion of the I
6.4.1 The Objective Attitude and the Promotion of the I
6.4.2 Ressentiment as Affective Mechanism
6.4.3 The Reinterpretation of Values
6.5 Early Phenomenological Accounts in the Light of Current Research
6.5.1 Etiology: Feelings of Self-worth, Powerlessness, and Repressed Hostility
6.5.2 Ontology: Ressentiment as Disposition
6.5.3 Psychology: Inversion of Values, Uplifting of the Self, and the Role of Affectivity in Self-deception
6.6 Concluding Remarks
References
Part III Social Self and Character
7 Else Voigtländer on Social Self-feelings
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The General Theory of Self-feeling
7.3 Inauthentic Self-feelings
7.4 Inauthentic Self-feelings: A Critique
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 Authenticity and Mask: Critical Self-relations in Else Voigtländer
8.1 The Mask and Inauthentic Self-feelings
8.2 Mirror Self-feeling in the 1910 Dissertation
8.3 “A Person’s ‘Manner’ and the Experience of the Mask” (1923)
8.4 The Metaphor of the Core of the Person
8.5 An Alternative Model for Authenticity
8.6 Conclusion
References
9 Phenomenology and Characterology. Austrian and Bavarian
9.1 Phenomenology and Character Traits
9.2 Pleasure and Personality: An Austrian View
9.3 Two Problems with the Austrian Account
9.4 The Bavarian Account: Else Voigtländer and Munich Phenomenology
9.5 Evaluation
References
Part IV Gender and Politics
10 Else Voigtländer on Sexual Difference: An Early 20th-Century Gender Theory?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Work with Fritz Giese (1915)
10.3 Collaboration with Adalbert Gregor (1918–1924)
10.4 Independent Work on Gender Theory (1923–1926)
10.5 Contributions to the Concise Dictionary of Sexual Science
10.6 Articles in the Journal of Sexual Science
10.7 Approaches to Gender Theory by Voigtländer and Stein
References
11 Psychologizing Politics, Neglect, and Gender: Applications of Voigtländer’s Scientific Characterology
11.1 Setting the Methodological Tracks: A Phenomenological Science of Character
11.2 Psychologizing Political Stance: Characterology and Politics
11.3 Psychologizing Neglect: Characterology and Social Welfare
11.4 Psychologizing and Somatizing Gender (Geschlecht): Characterology and Sexology
11.5 Conclusion
References
12 An Ordinary Woman: Else Voigtländer and National Socialism
12.1 Introduction: From Emotions to Politics
12.2 Intimations of Political Attitudes?
12.3 German Nationalism and Anti-semitism
12.4 Apprenticeship in Eugenics
12.5 Career in Corrections
12.6 Professional Treatment of Political Prisoners
12.7 National Socialism
12.8 Applied Politics
12.9 Stumble Stones
12.10 Conclusion: An Ordinary Woman
References
Index