The rationality of emotion / Ronald de Sousa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Sousa, Ronald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Rationalism.

Objectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 373 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1987]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this urbane and witty book, Ronald de Sousa disputes the widespread notion that reason and emotion are natural antagonists. He argues that emotions are a kind of perception, that their roots in the paradigm scenarios in which they are learned give them an essentially dramatic structure, and that they have a crucial role to-play in rational beliefs, desires, and decisions by breaking the deadlocks of pure reason.The book's twelve chapters take up the following topics: alternative models of mind and emotion; the relation between evolutionary, physiological, and social factors in emotions; a taxonomy of objects of emotions; assessments of emotions for correctness and rationality; the regulation by emotions of logical and practical reasoning; emotion and time; the mechanism of emotional self-deception; the ethics of laughter; and the roles of emotions in the conduct of life. There is also an illustrative interlude, in the form of a lively dialogue about the ideology of love, jealousy, and sexual exclusiveness.A Bradford Book.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0585325006

9780585325002

9780262284080

0262284081

OCLC:

45844218

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.