A tear is an intellectual thing : the meanings of emotion / Jerome Neu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neu, Jerome, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is jealousy eliminable? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one override a society's account of its rituals? The discussion throughout this text is motivated by the Spinozist hope that understanding our lives can help change them.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Mill's Pig: An Introduction; 2. "A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing"; 3. Jealous Thoughts; 4. Jealous Afterthoughts; 5. Odi et Amo: On Hating the Ones We Love; 6. Boring from Within: Endogenous versus Reactive Boredom; 7. Pride and Identity; 8. Plato's Homoerotic Symposium; 9. Freud and Perversion; 10. What Is Wrong with Incest?; 11. Fantasy and Memory: The Etiological Role of Thoughts according to Freud; 12. "Does the Professor Talk to God?": Learning from Little Hans; 13. Lévi-Strauss on Shamanism; 14. "Getting Behind the Demons"

15. Life-Lies and Pipe Dreams: Self-Deception in Ibsen's The Wild Duck and O'Neill's The Iceman ComethNotes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028416-1

0-19-772992-4

1-280-47145-X

0-19-535258-0

0-585-38076-7

OCLC:

560167699