The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780415515047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str.

Stephen Gaukroger

Opis

Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century.

Spis treści

Introduction , Stephen Gaukroger; Part I The nature of the passions; Chapter 1 Explaining the passions, Susan James; Chapter 2 Rationalizing the passions, Genevieve Lloyd; Part II The symbolism of the passions; Chapter 3 Reading the passions, Peter Harrison; Chapter 4 Painting the passions, Christopher Allen; Part III The physiology of the passions; Chapter 5 Controlling the passions, John Sutton; Chapter 6 Restraining the passions, Jamie C. Kassler;

O autorze

Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has written several books, including Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Cartesian Logic, and Arnauld: On True and False Ideas.