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`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field... it is such a blockbuster that one can only reel backwards and tell anyone studying the subject that they would be crazy not to get it' - Self & Society This fascinating book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense, tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses. The contributors - some of the leading figures in the field - produce a new theoretical synthesis by drawing together these strands.
Vignette 1: Aristotle on the Emotions
Vignette 1: Aristotle on the Emotions
‘The emotions are all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure’
Here, then, is Aristotle's pithiest reflection on the nature of the emotions, a subject that already had received sustained philosophical attention within Plato's Academy. From the early to the later dialogues, the Socratic view of the emotions – and particularly that of love – underwent significant changes. Thus, in the Phaedrus emotion, once a wild steed to be controlled by rationality, is now the source of creativity, bringing into being what reason alone could never fathom. Aristotle would later characterize such productions as but a species of rhetoric as ...
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