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The soft underbelly of reason : the passions in the seventeenth century / edited by Stephen Gaukroger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 1.
- Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions (Philosophy)--History--17th century.
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Explaining the passions: passions, desires, and the explanation of action; Rationalizing the passions: Spinoza on reason and the passions; Reading the passions: the Fall, the passions, and dominion over nature; Painting the passions: the Passions de l'me as a basis for pictorial expression; Controlling the passions: passion, memory, and the moral physiology of self in seventeenth-century neurophilosophy
- Restraining the passions: hydropneumatics and hierarchy in the philosophy of Thomas WillisIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-69814-3
- 1-134-69815-1
- 1-280-18272-5
- 9786610182725
- 0-203-44851-0
- 9780203448519
- OCLC:
- 123470203
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