Teoria ontofenomenologica delle emozioni. Il mondo emotivo come organo di senso per l’apertura e chiusura dei futuri

Abstract

Based on the lecture “Disclosers. Man, disclosed space” (IIF Conference, 2025), this paper formalizes an ontophenomenological theory of emotions to specify the conditions for opening or closing futures. Assuming a structural correlation between human and future openness, the human being is defined as a discloser: a space for disclosing the future. Here, general ontophenomenology operates an onto-existential paradigm shift, adopting an existentially explicit conception of emotions as engagements with the world. The theory integrates three ontological insights: emotional mood as situated attunement (Heidegger); emotion as intentional conduct structured as evaluative judgement about the future (Sartre); emotional feeling as access to a value-order that selects the possible (Scheler). Consequently, the emotional world functions as a “sense-organ” of the future. The work formalizes a triad – mood, evaluation, value – as a theoretical device for the analysis and generation of open futures.