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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dixon, Thomas (Thomas M.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Emotions (Philosophy)
Emotions.
Émotions (Philosophie)
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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