Violent Passions

Author : T. Adams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980888
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Passions written by T. Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn.

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Works of David Hume written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199251886
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dissertation on the Passions written by David Hume and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3S/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of the passions written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Human Nature written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2 written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202269
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passions written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.

Author : Stephen Holmes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226349688
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passions and Constraint written by Stephen Holmes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holmes argues that the aspirations of liberal democracy - including individual liberty, the equal dignity of citizens, and a tolerance for diversity - are best understood in relation to two central themes of classical liberal theory: the psychological motivations of individuals and the necessary constraints on individual passions provided by robust institutions. Paradoxically, Holmes argues, such institutional restraints serve to enable, rather than limit or dilute, effective democracy.

Author : Philip Fisher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824893
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vehement Passions written by Philip Fisher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.

Author : Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400848512
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passions and the Interests written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the "harmless," if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith. Featuring a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman and a foreword by Amartya Sen, this Princeton Classics edition of The Passions and the Interests sheds light on the intricate ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphant, and reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of our most influential and provocative thinkers. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.