True to our feelings : what our emotions are really telling us / Robert C. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Robert C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective. 1. Anger as a Way of Engaging the World. 2. Why It Is Good to Be Afraid. 3. Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods. 4. Lessons of Love (and Plato's Symposium). 5. We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy. 6. Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness. 7. Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride. 8. Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance. Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions. 9. What an Emotion Theory Should Do. 10. Myth 1: Emotions

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective; Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions; Part III: The Ethics of Emotion: A Quest for Emotional Integrity; Annotated Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-045132-7

0-19-985203-0

1-281-93096-2

9786611930967

0-19-972560-8

OCLC:

476246465