A theory of feelings
By: Agnes Heller.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lexington
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780739129661; 9780739129678; 9780739135051
Subjects: Emotions
Work titles: Érzelmek elmélete.
Description: "A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pursues the nature of "feeling" itself, in all of its variability, through a close study of the distinctive categories of emotions, emotional dispositions, orientive feelings, and the passions. As such, the starting point of the analysis entails an examination of the characteristics of human involvement, or our ways of being in the world. Building upon this assessment of the conditions of human involvement, the philosophical history and emotional economy characteristic of modern relationships is treated, and the nature of expression, social division, suffering, and responsibility is evaluated in light of the theory of feeling presented here."--Jacket.
Notes: Translation of Az érzelmek elmélete.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The phenomenology of feelings; title: What does it mean to feel?; title: The classification of feelings; title: How do we learn to feel?; title: Value orientation and feelings; title: Particularist and individual feelings; title: Contributions to the social philosophy of feelings; title: About the historical dynamics of the; title: Bourgeois world of feelings in general; title: The housekeeping of feelings; title: The abstraction of feelings and beyond.