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Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
Freya Sierhuis
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Description for Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
Hardback. Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion. Editor(s): Cummings, Professor Brian; Sierhuis, Dr Freya. Num Pages: 328 pages, Includes 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical ... Read more
Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472413642
SKU
V9781472413642
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About Freya Sierhuis
Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor of English at the University of York, UK. Freya Sierhuis is Anniversary Research Lecturer at the University of York, UK.
Reviews for Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
'... richly learned essays ... such a volume is to be welcomed by all of us engaged in the history of the emotions.' Renaissance Quarterly '... a remarkably wide-ranging and insightful volume ... a rich and important contribution not only to debates about the passions and subjectivity, but to the broader fields of early modern ethics, politics, philosophy, and ... Read more