The vehement passions /

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. Intens...

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Auteur principal: Fisher, Philip, 1941-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2002.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rxpt
Table des matières:
  • 1. Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions
  • 2. Paths among the Passions
  • 3. Thoroughness
  • 4. Privacy, Radical Singularity
  • 5. Time
  • 6. Rashness
  • 7. Mutual Fear
  • 8. The Aesthetics of Fear
  • 9. The Radius of the Will
  • 10. Anger and Diminution
  • 11. Grief
  • 12. Spiritedness.