No. 72 (2025): Mayo-agosto
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Willing expectation and Emotional Expectation: Non-doxic Forms of Anticipating the Future in Husserl´s Phenomenology

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  • Celia Cabrera
Celia Cabrera
CONICET / Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires

Published 2025-03-18

Keywords

  • phenomenology,
  • time consciousness,
  • emotions,
  • will,
  • phantasy

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Cabrera, C. (2025). Willing expectation and Emotional Expectation: Non-doxic Forms of Anticipating the Future in Husserl´s Phenomenology. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 72, 203-232. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v720.2901
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Abstract

In manuscripts devoted to emotions and will published in the second and third volumes of the Studies on the Structure of Consciousness (XLIII/2-3), Husserl raises a pivotal question concerning the existence of a distinct and inherent form of expectation within emotion and willing (Hua XLIII/3, 285). Specifically, he introduces the terms “willing expectations” (Willenserwartungen) and “emotional expectations” (Gemütserwartungen), to describe a form of future-directedness that diverges from empirical and intellectual expectations, and which belong to the emotional sphere (Gemüt), broadly constructed. By delving into a selection of these manuscripts, this paper clarifies the meaning of these forms of anticipation of the future which involve an affective tension and a conception of the future as a practical horizon of realization of a goal. It also clarifies how these are different from what Husserl calls “intellectual (or theoretical) expectations” and empirically motivated expectations. 

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