From Passions to Emotions
Subtitle: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521026697
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Physiological & neuro-psychology; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Emotions; Emotions (Philosophy)
First sentence: Emotions are everywhere today.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : From passions and affections to emotions; title: Passions and affections in Augustine and Aquinas; title: From movements to mechanisms : passions, sentiments and affections in the Age of Reason; title: The Scottish creation of "the emotions" : David Hume, Thomas Brown, Thomas Chalmers; title: The physicalist appropriation of Brownian emotions : Alexander Bain, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin; title: Christian and theistic responses to the physicalist emotions paradigm; title: What was an emotion in 1884? : William James and his critics; title: Conclusions : How history can help us think about "the emotions"