Martha C. Nussbaum and many other representatives of the cognitive theory of emotions assign bodily sensations and feelings only a secondary role; it understands them as something that more or less incidentally accompanies emotions but is not a necessary part of emotions. In the article, we do not agree with this view or, better said, we want to investigate in what way we could understand the body and bodily sensations as a type of cognition. Understood in this way, bodily sensations could form the basis for the constitutive cognitive part of emotion itself. Finally, we highlight four possible ways in which bodily sensations can play the role of a cognitive component of emotion and thus propose an extended cognitive theory of emotions. In conclusion, we use Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance and alienation to highlight how his views on the relationship between the body and emotions complement the extended cognitive theory of emotion.
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