The secret history of emotion from Aristotle's Rhetoric to modern brain science
Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Ill. : Bristol :
University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor]
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798528506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A New Rhetoric of Passions
- 1. Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity
- 2. Apathy in the Shadow Economy of Emotion
- 3. Virtues of Passivity in the English Civil War
- 4. The Politics of Pride in David Hume and David Simple
- 5. Thinking and Feeling without a Brain: William Perfect and Adam Smith's Compassion
- Index
