Author: T. Adams
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
Violent Passions
Author: T. Adams
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.
The Philosophical Works of David Hume
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
A Dissertation on the Passions
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199251886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199251886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.
Of the passions
A Treatise on Human Nature
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2
The Passions
Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872202269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872202269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.
Passions and Constraint
Author: Stephen Holmes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226349688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Holmes argues that the aspirations of liberal democracy - including individual liberty, the equal dignity of citizens, and a tolerance for diversity - are best understood in relation to two central themes of classical liberal theory: the psychological motivations of individuals and the necessary constraints on individual passions provided by robust institutions. Paradoxically, Holmes argues, such institutional restraints serve to enable, rather than limit or dilute, effective democracy.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226349688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Holmes argues that the aspirations of liberal democracy - including individual liberty, the equal dignity of citizens, and a tolerance for diversity - are best understood in relation to two central themes of classical liberal theory: the psychological motivations of individuals and the necessary constraints on individual passions provided by robust institutions. Paradoxically, Holmes argues, such institutional restraints serve to enable, rather than limit or dilute, effective democracy.
The Vehement Passions
Author: Philip Fisher
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.