Affective Tonality and Transcendence

considerations on our constitutive openness to the world of film

Abstract

The philosophical inquiry present here is founded on the search to ontologically understand, through a reception of Heideggerian ontologically thought, how our filmic experience is constituted, especially when we are genuinely open to the phenomena unveiled therein. With this, we aim to question both the conditions of possibility regarding films' phenomenic manifestation and their philosophical potentials. To this end, we will delve into the two parts of our journey the correlated themes of affective-tonality (Stimmung) and fundamental-ontological transcendence concerning our disclosure (Erschlossenheit) to cinematic works and the being in general. Thus, in the first part, we will discuss the role of affection s in the constitution of the visualization of cinematic works as the enablers par excellence for situating ourselves in the first person at the core of the issues addressed therein. In the second part, we will develop the theme of transcendence in the filmic visualization, that is, our openness to films involving us in the problematics of temporalization or, more precisely, the modes of temporalization occurring in this experience.