Passions and the Emotions: Volume 85 - Series Number

This volume, based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017-18, considers passion and emotion.

List of contents

1. Love, guilt, and forgiveness Eleonore Stump; 2. Ruly and unruly passions: Early Modern perspectives Elizabeth S. Radcliffe; 3. Lange vs James on emotion, passion, and the arts Paisley Livingston; 4. The passions and religious belief John Cottingham; 5. The evaluative content of emotion Patricia Greenspan; 6. Passion for the art of morally responsible technology development Sabine Roeser and Steffen Steinert; 7. The aesthetic dimension of passion Sebastian Gardner; 8. Why you'll regret not reading this paper Mark Schroeder; 9. The quest for God: rethinking desire Fiona Ellis; 10. A truthful way to live? Objectivity, ethics and psychoanalysis Michael Lacewing; 11. Responding emotionally to fiction: a Spinozist approach Susan James; 12. The persuasive use of emotions Jamie Dow; 13. How to make the passions active: Spinoza and R. G. Collingwood Alexander Douglas; 14. Emotional intentionality Matthew Ratcliffe.

Summary

This volume, based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017–18, considers passion and emotion, and their intentionality. The relationships between the passions and religious belief and to aesthetics are also analysed, alongside the ethical and psychoanalytical implications of our emotions.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony O'Hear, Anthony (Royal Institute of Philosophy O''''hear
• Assisted by: Anthony O'Hear (Editor), Anthony (Royal Institute of Philosophy O'Hear (Editor), O'Hear Anthony (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108748049
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74804-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mind, Popular philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics