On the Temporality of Emotions - An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love

Berislav Maruši¿ investigates a puzzle about our emotions and their relation to time: grief and anger tend to diminish even when the reasons for them remain, but love feels like it should be lasting. Maruši¿ argues that it is rational for these emotions to be experienced like this.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Part I


• 1: The Puzzle of Accommodation


• 2: The Rationality of Emotion


• 3: In Defense of the Puzzle


• 4: Embodied Reason


• Part II


• 5: Endless Love


• Conclusion

About the author

Berislav Marušić is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He was formerly Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Brandeis University (2007-2015, 2015-2020). He received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 2007 and his AB from Harvard University in 2001. His main research interests are in philosophy of mind and action, ethics, epistemology, as well as in existentialism and the history of late modern philosophy. He is the author of Evidence and Agency: Norms of Belief for Promising and Resolving (Oxford, 2015).

Summary

Berislav Marušic investigates a puzzle about our emotions and their relation to time: grief and anger tend to diminish even when the reasons for them remain, but love feels like it should be lasting. Marušic argues that it is rational for these emotions to be experienced like this.

Additional text

On the Temporality of Emotions is a philosophy book of a kind one rarely encounters today. It is written with an urgency and concern for real, lived philosophical problems, and it offers insights that would speak both to philosophers who specialize in emotions, reason, and rationality and to anyone who cares to reflect on her emotional life

Product details

• Authors: Berislav (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Marusic, Berislav (University of Edinburgh) Marusic, Berislav Marušić
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780198851165
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885116-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy