Ludwig Landgrebe’s Phenomenology of Moods

Ignacio Quepons

In a letter dated February 5, 1933, Husserl shares his disagreements over anattempt to connect the notion of the horizon with the Heideggerian philosophy ofmoods with Landgrebe. Husserl claims that for him, moods are founded in amore elementary dimension of life-consciousness that is the dimensionconferring objectivity to the phenomena of experience:According to what I’m hearing, you are still always trying to transform mytheory of horizons in a Heideggerian way, and thus to establish aconnection between us. I am quite certain that this is not possible and thatmood is not an elementary phenomenon, but lies at a higher level that onlycomes later in the systematic analysis of founding-founded relationships.Yet you shall and must find your own way and come to your own claritystep by step.The origin of the controversy was Landgrebe’s project for a Habilitationsschriftentitled The Concept of Experiencing, where we may find one of the first  attempts in the phenomenological tradition at a genetic-phenomenological description of affective life.