On Emotions - Philosophical Essays

Zusatztext The chapters in this volume offer many different perspectives on the various ways emotions contribute to the moral, aesthetic, comic, political, and intellectual aspects of human life. Anyone interested in any of these themes will thus find something to please them here. Informationen zum Autor John Deigh is Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Texas, Austin Klappentext This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity, personal identity, self-knowledge, and science. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity, personal identity, self-knowledge, and science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Introduction John Deigh Chapter 1 Justice as an Emotion Disposition Robert C. Roberts Chapter 2 Equality and Love at the End of the Marriage of Figaro: Forging Democratic Emotions Martha C. Nussbaum Chapter 3 Spectator Emotions Paul Woodruff Chapter 4 Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition Noël Carroll Chapter 5 Intellectual and Other Nonstandard Emotions Michael Stocker Chapter 6 Authenticity and the Examined Life Jerome Neu Chapter 7 Self-Knowledge and the Affirmation of Love Laurence Thomas Chapter 8 Love and Death Kathleen Marie Higgins Chapter 9 Guilt in War Nancy Sherman Chapter 10 Emotions and Personal Identity Charles Nussbaum Chapter 11 The Emergence of Emotion as an Object of Scientific Study John Deigh Index

Product details

• Authors: John Deigh, John (EDT) Deigh
• Assisted by: John Deigh (Editor), John (Professor Deigh (Editor), Deigh John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199740192
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974019-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge