| Description |
1 online resource (x, 268 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions -- 2. Paths among the Passions -- 3. Thoroughness -- 4. Privacy, Radical Singularity -- 5. Time -- 6. Rashness -- 7. Mutual Fear -- 8. Aesthetics of Fear -- 9. Radius of the Will -- 10. Anger and Diminution -- 11. Grief -- 12. Spiritedness. |
| Summary |
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emotions (Philosophy)
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Emotions (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fisher, Philip, 1941- Vehement passions. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691069964 (DLC) 2001055193 (OCoLC)48265651 |
| ISBN |
1400814103 (electronic book) |
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9781400814107 (electronic book) |
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9781400824892 (electronic book) |
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1400824893 (electronic book) |
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0691069964 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691069968 (alkaline paper) |
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