True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
Professor Robert C. Solomon
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Description for True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
paperback. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMAL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable ... Read more
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195368536
SKU
V9780195368536
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99-1
About Professor Robert C. Solomon
Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A past president of the International Society for Research on Emotions, he is the author of more than forty books, including The Passions, The Joy of Philosophy, Spirituality for the Skeptic, Not Passion's Slave and In Defense ... Read more
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