ABSTRACT
Since the main task of phenomenology concerns the various modes of givenness in which things manifest themselves, it unavoidably has to come to terms with the phenomena of moods and emotions that shape the way the world is revealed both in its overall meaning and in its most salient features. To be more precise, what shows up in moods and emotions is not the world of objects standing in opposition to subject or consciousness, but the world as the ultimate horizon of significance in which reader are involved, as well as various possible ways. However, the legacies of both Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger concerning feelings, moods and emotions are ambivalent, since their many merits in the study of affective life consist of providing essential conceptual and methodological tools. To date, most theories regard emotion as existing in principle prior to and independently of emotional conduct, which is conceived as something arising out of already given and determinate emotion.
