Thinking about the Emotions A Philosophical History

by Cohen, Alix; Stern, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780191840494
• ISBN10: 0191840491
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-08-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Alix Cohen, Chancellor's Fellow, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh,Robert Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Alix Cohen is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (Palgrave, 2009), the editor of Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2014), Kant on Emotion and Value (Palgrave, 2014), and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and the Oxford Bibliography Online (OUP).

Robert Stern is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (2nd edn, Routledge, 2013), Hegelian Metaphysics (OUP, 2009), Understanding Moral Obligation (CUP, 2012) and Kantian Ethics (OUP, 2015). He has formerly been editor of the Hegel Bulletin and the European Journal of Philosophy, and is currently President of the British Philosophical Association.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Alix Cohen & Robert Stern
1. Thinking Historically/Thinking Analytically: The Passion of History and the History of Passions, Daniel Garber
2. The Passions as the Subject of the Virtues, T. H. Irwin
3. Emotions and the Will in Medieval Philosophy, Dominik Perler
4. Ideas and Affects in Spinoza's Therapy of Passions, Lilli Alanen
5. 'I've Got a Little List:' the Classification of the Passions and Forms of Explanation in 17th Century Philosophy, Amy Schmitter
6. The Politics of Laughter in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, Laurent Jaffro
7. Alcali and Acid, Oil and Vinegar: Hume on Contrary Passions, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
8. Kant on the Moral Cultivation of Feelings, Alix Cohen
9. How Should We Understand Schiller's Critique of Kant? Grace, Emotion and Expressive Activity, Christopher Bennett
10. Affect and Cognition in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Christohper Janaway
11. Thrills, Orgasms & Sadness: Austro-German Criticisms of William James, Kevin Mulligan
12. Methodological Anxiety: Heidegger on Moods and Emotions, Sacha Golob
13. Sartre on Affectivity, Anthony Hatzimoysis
14. Getting a Grip on Emotional Modes, Fabrice Teroni