From Passions to Emotions - The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category

Informationen zum Autor Dr Thomas Dixon is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity and a fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Klappentext Until two centuries ago "the emotions" did not exist. Thomas Dixon reveals in this study how emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category. They replaced such concepts as appetites! passions! sentiments and affections! which had preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Augustine! Aquinas! Hume! and Darwin. The book is a significant original contribution to the debate which has preoccupied western thinkers across many disciplines in recent decades. Zusammenfassung Thomas Dixon shows how! during the nineteenth century! the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category! displacing such concepts as appetites! passions! sentiments and affections. From Passions to Emotions is a significant contribution to that ongoing debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: from passions and affections to emotions; 2. Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas; 3. From movements to mechanisms: passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason; 4. The Scottish creation of 'the emotions': David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers; 5. The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin; 6. Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm; 7. What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics; 8. Conclusions: how history can help us think about 'the emotions'; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Dixon, Thomas (University of Cambridge) Dixon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2003
• EAN: 9780521827294
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82729-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought