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There are two aspects to emotional truth: how well an emotion reflects the threats and promises of the world, and how well it reflects our own individual nature. That is the starting point of this book, which looks first at the analogies and disanalogies between strict propositional truth and a looser, "generic" sense of truth.
List of contents
- PART I
- TRUTH, COHERENCE, AND RATIONALITY
- 1.: PARADOXICAL EMOTIONS
- 2.: WHAT EMOTIONS HAVE TO SAY
- 3.: EMOTIONAL TRUTH AS GENERIC TRUTH
- 4.: TRUTH, RATIONALITY, AUTHENTICITY
- PART II
- 5.: LEARNING TO BE NATURAL
- 6.: EMOTIONS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOR
- 7.: MORAL EMOTIONS
- 8.: WHAT ELSE IS THERE? EMOTIONS, VALUE AND MORALITY
- PART III
- 9.: EPISTEMIC FEELINGS
- 10.: PERVERSION AND DEATH
- 11.: IS ART AN ADAPTATION?
- 12.: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE IN LIFE AND LITERATURE
- PART IV
- 13.: DESIRE AND SERENDIPITY
- 14.: PERILS OF HAPPINESS
- 15.: LOVE UNDIGITIZED
- 16.: LOVE AS THEATER
- 17.: REPETITION AND NOVELTY
About the author
Ronald de Sousa grew up in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. After completing school in France, he obtained a B.A. from Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Based at the University of Toronto, he has lectured in over twenty countries on the emotions, philosophy of biology, ethics, and aesthetics. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.
Summary
There are two aspects to emotional truth: how well an emotion reflects the threats and promises of the world, and how well it reflects our own individual nature. That is the starting point of this book, which looks first at the analogies and disanalogies between strict propositional truth and a looser, "generic" sense of truth.
Additional text
The essays, all written with Sousan flair and trademark themes, range widely over topics in emotion theory.
