@article{1455029,
      recid = {1455029},
      author = {Barrett, Nathaniel F.,},
      title = {Enjoyment as enriched experience : a theory of affect and  its relation to consciousness /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the  special challenges presented by our experience of affectall  varieties of pleasure and painand (2) to show how these  challenges can be overcome by an enrichment approach that  understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of  conscious activity as a whole. This enrichment approach  draws from Alfred North Whitehead as well as the  pragmatists John Dewey and William James, all of whom  thought of affect as a fundamental aspect of experience  rather than a special class of feelings. It also draws from  recent scientific research that suggests that the dynamic  repertoire of consciousness can change, effectively  expanding and contracting our capacity to feel. Weaving  these perspectives together, the book develops a theory  that accounts for the peculiar phenomenology of affect and  sheds new light on a diverse range of experiences, from  everyday pleasures and pains to the special satisfactions  of the arts and religious festivity. At the same time, it  presents a fresh and distinctively affect-centered  perspective on the nature of consciousness.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1455029},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13790-7},
}