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Title

Bringing the passions back in : the emotions in political philosophy / edited by Rebecca Kingston and Leonard Ferry.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Kingston, Rebecca
• Ferry, Leonard, 1971-

Description

x, 268 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Combining intellectual history and political theory, the contributors to Bringing the Passions Back In illuminate the place of emotions in modern liberal and democratic politics."--Jacket.

Subject

• Political science > Philosophy
• Emotions > Political aspects
• Emotions (Philosophy)
• Political psychology
• Idées politiques
• Émotions > Aspect politique
• Émotions (Philosophie)
• Psychologie politique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: politics and passion / Charles Taylor -- Introduction: the emotions and the history of political thought / Leonard Ferry and Rebecca Kingston -- Explaining emotions / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- Plato on shame and frank speech in democratic Athens / Christina Tarnopolsky -- The passions of the wise: Phronēsis, rhetoric, and Aristotle's passionate deliberation / Arash Abizadeh -- Troubling business: the emotions in Aquinas' philosophical psychology / Leonard Ferry -- The political relevance of the emotins from Descartes to Smith / Rebecca Kingston -- Passion, power, and impartiality in Hume / Sharon Krause -- Pity, pride, and prejudice: Rousseau on the passions / Ingrid Makus -- Feelings in the political philosophy of J.S. Mill / Marlene K. Sokolon -- Emotions, reasons, and judgments / Leah Bradshaw -- The politics of emotions / Robert C. Solomon.

ISBN

• 9780774814096 (bound)
• 0774814098 (bound)

LCCN

^^2008399153

OCLC

150223084

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library