The Logic of Affect / Paul Redding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redding, Paul, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy)--History.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Emotions and cognition--History.

Emotions and cognition.

Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Most attempts to trace the roots of current scientific approaches to the mind have ignored the contributions of post-Kantian German idealism. Paul Redding here shows the relevance of this philosophical tradition to an understanding of the mind and its embodiment as well as the relation of feeling to cognition.Redding observes how Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel struggled with the problem of reconciling Kant's normative approach to experience and thought with the naturalistic stance of the emerging medical sciences. A century later William James, Freud, and Jung also addressed the interconnection of thought and feeling, reaching views similar to those of the post-Kantian idealists. In particular, Redding argues, the idealists conceived of a'logic of affect'that reemerged in Freud's concept of the primary process and in modern evolutionary ideas of subcortical processing.This innovative book demonstrates how new insights can be brought to the study of mentality and consciousness by considering previously overlooked interpretations. Redding shows that these early theorists of the unconscious can bring scholars to a better appreciation not only of classical thinkers like James and Freud but also of contemporary debates about the mind and emotions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Logic for the Reasons of the Heart?

1. Affect in Twentieth-Century Thought

2. James's Theory of the Emotions in the Context of His Conception of the Mind

3. Freud, Affect, and the Logic of the Unconscious

4. Kant, Mind, and Self-Consciousness

5. The Unsayable Self-Feeling Body: Feeling, Representation, and Reality in Fichte' s Transcendental Idealism

6. The Feeling and Representing Organism: Schelling, Transcendental Idealism, and Naturphilosophie

7. Hegel, Affect, and Cognition

8. The Relevance of Idealist Psychology in a Darwinian World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501738920

1501738925

OCLC:

1129203034