Affectivity in Heidegger II: Temporality, Boredom, and Beyond

@article{Freeman2015AffectivityIH,
  title={Affectivity in Heidegger II: Temporality, Boredom, and Beyond},
  author={Lauren Freeman and Andreas Elpidorou},
  journal={Philosophy Compass},
  year={2015},
  volume={10},
  pages={672-684}
}
In ‘Affectivity in Heidegger I: Moods and Emotions in Being and Time’, we explicated the crucial role that Martin Heidegger assigns to our capacity to affectively find ourselves in the world. There, our discussion was restricted to Division I of Being and Time (BT). Specifically, we discussed how Befindlichkeit as a basic existential (i.e., a structure of Dasein's being that constitutes both the manner in which Dasein exists and discloses itself) and moods as the ontic counterparts of… 
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