Until two centuries ago "the emotions" did not exist. Thomas Dixon reveals in this study how emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category. They replaced such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections, which had preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, and Darwin. The book is a significant original contribution to the debate which has preoccupied western thinkers across many disciplines in recent decades.
Until two centuries ago "the emotions" did not exist. Thomas Dixon reveals in this study how emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category. They replaced such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections, which had preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, and Darwin. The book is a significant original contribution to the debate which has preoccupied western thinkers across many disciplines in recent decades.
Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. was an American Baptist clergyman, politician, lawyer, lecturer, author, and filmmaker. Dixon, known as a "professional racist," wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden-1865-1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), which romanticized Southern white supremacy, supported the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for black people, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the big screen in his film The Birth of a Nation (1915). The film served as inspiration for the Klan's revival in the twentieth century. His elder brother, preacher Amzi Clarence Dixon, contributed to the editing of The Fundamentals, a series of articles (and later volumes) that were significant in fundamentalist Christianity. "He won international acclaim as one of the greatest ministers of his day." His younger brother, Frank Dixon, was also a preacher and lecturer. His sister, Elizabeth Delia Dixon-Carroll, was a pioneer woman physician in North Carolina, serving as the doctor at Meredith College in Raleigh for many years. Dixon's father, Thomas J. F. Dixon Sr., was a well-known Baptist minister, landowner, and slave-owner.
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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: from passions and affections to emotions 2. Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas 3. From movements to mechanisms: passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason 4. The Scottish creation of 'the emotions': David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers 5. The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin 6. Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm 7. What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics 8. Conclusions: how history can help us think about 'the emotions' Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: from passions and affections to emotions 2. Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas 3. From movements to mechanisms: passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason 4. The Scottish creation of 'the emotions': David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers 5. The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions: Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin 6. Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm 7. What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics 8. Conclusions: how history can help us think about 'the emotions' Bibliography Index.
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