ABSTRACT
“Atmospheres” often refers to feelings that pervade and tonalise a certain external (lived) space and, thus, to something shared by definition. But this is too fast and needs further investigation. This chapter begins by briefly discussing the very ambiguity of the notion of shared feeling as such: is a shared feeling something intentional? What is its spreading degree? Does it really have a numerical identity? The second part concerns the reinterpretation of the concept of shared feeling from an atmospherologic perspective and extensively addresses this issue starting from the neophenomenological distinction between the atmospheric feeling as such and the affective involvement it triggers. The three kinds of atmosphere outlined (prototypic, derivate, and spurious) also apply to different types and grades of emotional sharing through felt-bodily processes, showing that they usually produce a well-balanced condition of similarity and difference. Finally, the chapter researches the possibility that an atmospherologic approach could also serve for a better understanding of those socio-historical moods that influence the private and collective climate more than you might think.
