The Atmospherical Turn in Phenomenology

This paper aims at that phenomenological revision known as the "New Phenomenology" introduced into the philosophical landscape by the German philosopher Hermann Schmitz. According to this new philosophical paradigm, emotions and feelings are “atmospheres” poured out spatially that move the felt body. Countering the psychologist, reductionist, and introjectionist objectification of feelings and emotions, the “New Phenomenology” assumes that the idea of the soul, meant as a private inner sphere containing its entire experience, is mistaken.