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Thinking about the emotions : a philosophical history / edited by Alix Cohen, Robert Stern.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mind Association occasional series.
- Mind Association occasional series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions (Philosophy)--History.
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Philosophical history
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In 'Thinking About The Emotions', leading philosophers offer a rich survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions, discussing major thinkers from antiquity to the 20th century. It 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.
- Contents:
- Thinking historically/thinking analytically: the passion of history : and the history of passions / Daniel Garber
- The subject of the virtues / T.H. Irwin
- Emotions and rational control : two medieval perspectives / Dominik Perler
- Affects and ideas in Spinoza's therapy of passions / Lilli Alanen
- "I've got a little list" : classification, explanation, and the focal passions in Descartes and Hobbes / Amy Schmitter
- The passions and actions of laughter in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson / Laurent Jaffro
- Alcali and acid, oil and vinegar : Hume on contrary passions / Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
- Kant on the moral cultivation of feelings / Alix Cohen
- grace, freedom, and the expression of emotion : Schiller and the critique of Kant / Affect and cognition in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche / Christopher Janaway
- Thrills, orgasms, sadness, and hysteria : Austro-German criticisms of William James / Kevin Mulligan
- Methodological anxiety : Heidegger on moods and emotions / Sacha Golob
- Sartre on affectivity / Anthony Hatzimoysis
- In pursuit of emotional modes : the philosophy of emotion after James / Fabrice Teroni
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780192521675
- 0192521675
- 9780191840494
- 0191840491
- 9780191079443
- 0191079448
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