From passions to emotions the creation of a secular psychological category - Dixon, Thomas 1973- (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-278) and index
Introduction : from passions and affections to emotions -- Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas -- From movements to mechanisms : passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason -- The Scottish creation of "the emotions" : David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers -- The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions : Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin -- Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm -- What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics -- Conclusions : how history can help us think about "the emotions."
Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, displacing such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. From Passions to Emotions is a significant contribution to that ongoing debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines