Definition of Irritation
Irritations unsettle orientation by disturbing its routines. They prompt orientation to search for their causes and thereby stimulate it to correct or reorient these routines of perception, behavior, action, and interpretation (chap. 3.2). Human orientation can even self-irritate through conscious thinking, enabling it to create and control alternative distinctions (chap 9.3). However, irritating signals are also only clues that have to be decided upon: your orientation may or may not respond to them (chap. 8.4).
While media orientation may be characterized as irritation through surprises (chap. 12.3) and artistic orientation as irritation through creative disorientation (chap. 13.2), religious orientation can rule out all irritation and disorientation through a resolute and unshakable faith (chap. 13.3).
Note:
The chapters and the page numbers refer to the book by Werner Stegmaier, What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation, translated by Reinhard G. Mueller (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019).
29-33, 67, 88, 103-107, 111, 120, 123, 126, 148, 150, 163, 196-198, 201, 205, 231, 279
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