In defense of sentimentality / Robert C. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Robert C., author.

Series:

Solomon, Robert C. Passionate life.

The passionate life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Sentimentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This defence of the emotions and sentimentality against the background of what is perceived as a long history of abuse in social thought and literary criticism argues that our emotions are the essence of a well-lived life. They can be virtues features of the human condition without which civilized life would be unimaginable.

Contents:

In defense of sentimentality

Sympathy and vengeance : the role of feelings in justice

Care and compassion : moral sentiment theory revisited

On grief and gratitude

Real horror

Comic relief : in appreciation of the seven deadly sins

Spirituality as sentimentality

The virtue of (erotic) love

Reasons for love

A lover's reply (to Roland Barthes's A lover's discourse)

On kitsch and sentimentality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-287) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-028705-5

1-280-83542-7

9786610835423

0-19-803328-1

1-4237-6145-6

OCLC:

65192814