The vehement passions:
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Main Author: Fisher, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press ©2002
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and indexes
1 - Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions -- - 2 - Paths among the Passions -- - 3 - Thoroughness -- - 4 - Privacy, Radical Singularity -- - 5 - Time -- - 6 - Rashness -- - 7 - Mutual Fear -- - 8 - The Aesthetics of Fear -- - 9 - The Radius of the Will -- - 10 - Anger and Diminution -- - 11 - Grief -- - 12 - Spiritedness
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 pages)
ISBN:0691069964
1400814103
1400824893
9780691069968
9781400814107
9781400824892

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