From passions to emotions : the creation of a secular psychological category /

Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, displacing such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. From Passions to Emotions is a significant contribution to that ongoing debate about emotion and ratio...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Thomas (Thomas M.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Emotions (Philosophy)
Emotions.
Émotions (Philosophie)
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : from passions and affections to emotions
  • Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas
  • From movements to mechanisms : passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason
  • The Scottish creation of "the emotions" : David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers
  • The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions : Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin
  • Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm
  • What was an emotion in 1884? William James and his critics
  • Conclusions : how history can help us think about "the emotions."

Ejemplares similares