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Passions and subjectivity in early modern culture /

Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion, and in the process suggests both new models of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cummings, Brian, Sierhuis, Freya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Intersubjectivity, Ethics, Agency; 1 Passion and Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Literature; 2 Affective Physics: Affectus in Spinoza's Ethica; 3 Donne's Passions: Emotion, Agency and Language; Part II Embodiment, Cognition, Identity; 4 Melancholy, Passions and Identity in the Renaissance; 5 Montaigne's Soul; 6 Uncertain Knowing, Blind Vision and Active Passivity: Subjectivity, Sensuality and Emotion in Milton's Epistemology; Part III Politics, Affects, Friendship.
  • 7 Friendship and Freedom of Speech in the Work of Fulke Greville8 A Passion for the Past: The Politics of Nostalgia on the Early Jacobean Stage; 9 'Not Truth but Image Maketh Passion': Hobbes on Instigation and Appeasing; Part IV Religion, Devotion, Theology; 10 'A Sensible Touching, Feeling and Groping': Metaphor and Sensory Experience in the English Reformation; 11 'Tears of Passion' and 'Inordinate Lamentation': Complicated Grief in Donne and Augustine; 12 Passions, Politics and Subjectivity in Philip Massinger's The Emperor of the East; Part V Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions.
  • 13 The Fallacy of 'that within': Hamlet Meets Wittgenstein14 'The Greatest Share of Endless Pain': The Spectral Sacramentality of Pain in Milton's Paradise Lost; 15 'Not Passion's Slave': Hamlet, Descartes and the Passions; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.