On Emotions

Philosophical Essays
Herausgeber: Deigh, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity, personal identity, self-knowledge, and science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190462307
• ISBN-10: 0190462302
• Artikelnr.: 47863500

Autorenporträt

John Deigh is Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Introduction
John Deigh
Chapter 1
Justice as an Emotion Disposition
Robert C. Roberts
Chapter 2
Equality and Love at the End of the Marriage of Figaro: Forging Democratic Emotions
Martha C. Nussbaum
Chapter 3
Spectator Emotions
Paul Woodruff
Chapter 4
Comic Amusement, Emotion, and Cognition
Noël Carroll
Chapter 5
Intellectual and Other Nonstandard Emotions
Michael Stocker
Chapter 6
Authenticity and the Examined Life
Jerome Neu
Chapter 7
Self-Knowledge and the Affirmation of Love
Laurence Thomas
Chapter 8
Love and Death
Kathleen Marie Higgins
Chapter 9
Guilt in War
Nancy Sherman
Chapter 10
Emotions and Personal Identity
Charles Nussbaum
Chapter 11
The Emergence of Emotion as an Object of Scientific Study
John Deigh
Index