About this title: Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they rather suffused with intelligence and discernment, and thus a ...
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Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521462020ISBN:0521462029
Description: Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, some edgewear to the jacket(no tears), a little soiling to the boards, and other light shopwear. read more
Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780521462020ISBN:0521462029
Description: Very Good Plus. Very Good to Near Fine Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 751 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Note: Black line on bottom fore-edge. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780521531825ISBN:0521531829
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.02 by 1.73 inches. (766 pages) a philosophical examination of the emotions as highly discriminating responses to what is of value. martha c. nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value. she illuminates the structure of a wide range of emotions, showing that there can be no adequate ethical theory without an adequate theory of the emotions. martha c. nussbaum presents a powerful ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780521531825ISBN:0521531829
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 750pp, biblio, index. Trade format paperback in very good condition. An investigation of the treating of emotions as highly discrminating responses to what is of value and importance. read more
"Why I am reading this book: Studying the connection between thought and emotion in ethics. Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire was a great book on the Stoic and Epicurian view of emotions."
"So far a whole load of new Authors like Charles Taylor previously. This is an New World which is hithertoo unchartered. The Lesson so far is WIDE READING of those you like and don't like. (Charles Taylor). The Philosophy book reading seems to be a mainstay of academic reading."
"Western philosophical treatment of emotion from the Greeks, through early Christians, Enlightenment, Romantic authors and musicians, up to Walt Whitman. Nussbaum is a law professor who comes at philosophy from a practical viewpoint that assumes some emotions are too explosive to control - that's why there is second degree murder as opposed to first degree. And what is life without emotion - the hollowness of Puritan Christianity. Excellent, but scholarly. She's hammering out a new kind of philosophy that includes the breadth and depth of emotion, delights in that which is alien and unknown, and doesn't view anything with shame or disgust."
"I've only made it some of the way through, so far. (I don't like tomes.) And its thesis is questionable.... But that Proust quote at the beginning is still sticking in my mind."
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