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Emotional minds : the passions and the limits of pure inquiry in early modern philosophy / edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer.

Title
Emotional minds : the passions and the limits of pure inquiry in early modern philosophy / edited by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer.
Publication
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

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Additional Authors
Ebbersmeyer, Sabrina.
Description
xii, 318 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today`s research about the emotionality of the mind. The analyses of the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and many other thinkers collected in this volume offer new insights into the diversity and significance of philosophical reflections about emotions during the early modern era. A focus is placed on affective components in learning processes and the boundaries between emotions and reason.
Subject
  • Emotions (Philosophy) > Congresses
  • Reasoning > Congresses
  • Emotions (Philosophy)
  • Reasoning > Congresses
  • Reasoning
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Proceedings of a colloquium held in Oct. 2010 at the University of Munich.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • English, French, and German.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • I: The impact of Descartes' theory of the passions. The functional logic of Cartesian passons / Amélie Rorty ; Generosity / Theo Verbeek ; Auto-affection et cogito : sur le cartésianisme de Michel Henry / Édouard Mehl ; La structure passionelle de l'ame malebranchiste : entre Descartes et Regius?
  • II: Exploring Spinoza's theory of the affects. Spinoza on the passonate dimension of philosophical reasoning / Susan James ; Spinoza on imagination and the affects / Lisa Shapiro ; Spinoza et le problême de l'abjectio / Denis Kambouchner ; Changing one's own feelings -- Spinoza and Shaftsbury on philosophy as therapy / Ursula Renz
  • III: Transformation and critique of the mechanistic paradigm. Leibniz on the passions and the dynamical dimension of the human mind / Sabrina Ebbersmeyer ; Leibnitz on hope / Markku Roinila ; Knowledge and suffering in early modern philosophy -- G. W. Leibnitz and Anne Conway / Christia Mercer ; Henry More on human passions and animal souls / Cecilia Muratori
  • IV: Side glances and further developments. "Psssionate thought" -- reason and the passion of curiosity in Thomas Hobbes / Gianni Paganini ; Peut-on etre indifférent à soi-meme? -- difficultés stoïciennes dans le pur amour de Fénelon / Fosca Mariani Zini ; " -- le plus de douceur en cette vie -- " -- Moralistik, Sensualismus und der Geschmack von Passionen im 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert / Catherine Newmark ; Gefühl ist alles! -- Zur semantischen Genese einer Erfahungskategorie / Verena Mayer.
ISBN
9783110260908 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012024234
OCLC
  • 798612637
  • SCSB-10652377
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library