A mature, wise, and provocative work . . . . The main lines of argument
that the emotions are ways we constitute our lives with meaning; that they are in some important sense things we do rather than things that merely happen to us; that emotions have their own sort of rationality and logic and are subject to evaluation and criticism ... Read moreas such; that emotions are, in some important sense, evaluative judgments
remain an important, credible contemporary view. . . . Solomon is clear, clever, and deep (also often funny).
Owen Flanagan, Duke University Show Less