On Emotions: Philosophical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780199740192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

John Deigh

Opis

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. Several break new ground in the field. Others extend and deepen work for which their authors are well-known. All but two of the essays are new. Contributors include Noel Carroll, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Woodruff, Laurence Thomas, Kathleen Higgins, Michael Stocker, Nancy Sherman, Jerome Neu, Charles Nussbaum, and Robert Roberts.

The book honors the memory of Robert C. Solomon, whose influential work in the philosophy of emotions helped mold the field for over three decades. An introductory essay explains the development and importance of Solomon's thought in this field.

Recenzje

The chapters in this volume offer many different perspectives on the various ways emotions contribute to the moral, aesthetic, comic, political, and intellectual aspects of human life. Anyone interested in any of these themes will thus find something to please them here.

O autorze

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