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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alix Cohen; Robert Stern |
ISBN: | 9780198766858 0198766858 |
OCLC Number: | 1156763109 |
Description: | ix, 321 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Alix Cohen and Robert Stern -- 1. Thinking historically/thinking analytically: the passion of history : and the history of passions / Daniel Garber -- 2. The subject of the virtues / T.H. Irwin -- 3. Emotions and rational control : two medieval perspectives / Dominik Perler -- 4. Affects and ideas in Spinoza's therapy of passions / Lilli Alanen -- 5. "I've got a little list" : classification, explanation, and the focal passions in Descartes and Hobbes / Amy Schmitter -- 6. The passions and actions of laughter in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson / Laurent Jaffro -- 7. Alcali and acid, oil and vinegar : Hume on contrary passions / Elizabeth S. Radcliffe -- 8. Kant on the moral cultivation of feelings / Alix Cohen -- 9. Grace, freedom, and the expression of emotion : Schiller and the critique of Kant / Christopher Bennett -- 10. Affect and cognition in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche / Christopher Janaway -- 11. Thrills, orgasms, sadness, and hysteria : Austro-German criticisms of William James / Kevin Mulligan -- 12. Methodological anxiety : Heidegger on moods and emotions / Sacha Golob -- 13. Sartre on affectivity / Anthony Hatzimoysis -- 14. In pursuit of emotional modes : the philosophy of emotion after James / Fabrice Teroni -- Index. |
Series Title: | Mind Association occasional series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Alix Cohen & Robert Stern. |
Abstract:
Leading philosophers offer a rich survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions, discussing major thinkers from antiquity to the 20th century. Thinking about the Emotions is a fascinating and illuminating study of how philosophers have grappled with this intriguing part of our nature as beings who feel as well as think and act.
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