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Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History (Mind Association Occasional Series)
Cohen, Alix; Stern,
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Description for Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History (Mind Association Occasional Series)
Hardcover. Leading philosophers offer a rich survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions, discussing major thinkers from antiquity to the 20th century. Thinking about the Emotions 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. Editor(s): Cohen, Alix; Stern, Robert. Series: Mind Association Occasional Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions. The thinkers they discuss include Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Brentano, Stumpf, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre. Central issues include the taxonomy of the emotions; the distinction between emotions, passions, feelings and moods; the relation between the emotions and reason; the relationship between the self ... Read more
Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions. The thinkers they discuss include Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Brentano, Stumpf, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre. Central issues include the taxonomy of the emotions; the distinction between emotions, passions, feelings and moods; the relation between the emotions and reason; the relationship between the self ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Mind Association Occasional Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198766858
SKU
V9780198766858
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About Cohen, Alix; Stern,
Alix Cohen is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (Palgrave, 2009), the editor of Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2014), Kant on Emotion and Value (Palgrave, 2014), and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and the ... Read more
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