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From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category Book
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Blackwell
A significant and original contribution to the ongoing debate about emotion and rationality. Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the...
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Book Description
Emotions are everywhere today, their importance obvious to all. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this pathbreaking study Thomas Dixon shows how the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, displacing such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections, all of which had preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, and Darwin. From Passion to Emotion is a significant and original contribution to that debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers across many disciplines in recent decades.
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Product Description
Until two centuries ago "the emotions" did not exist. Thomas Dixon reveals in this study how emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category. They replaced such concepts as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections, which had preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, and Darwin. The book is a significant original contribution to the debate which has preoccupied western thinkers across many disciplines in recent decades.
- 0521026695
- 9780521026697
- Thomas Dixon
- 1 June 2006
- Cambridge University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 300
- 1st. Pbk. Version
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