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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300079745
ISBN-139780300079746
eBay Product ID (ePID)1169968
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOn the Emotions
Publication Year1999
SubjectEmotions
TypeTextbook
AuthorRichard Wollheim
Subject AreaPsychology
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-065332
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal152.4
SynopsisLeading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they are--like beliefs and desires--dispositions or underlying forces in the mind that erupt from time to time into the stream of consciousness. However, to assimilate emotions to beliefs or to desires or to some combination of the two is quite wrong. Emotions are attitudes or orientations to the world, says the author, and in this regard they are naturally associated with the imagination. The book considers what emotions are, how they arise in our lives, and how standard and "moral" emotions differ. Wollheim writes within the analytic tradition, yet decisively abandons a number of assumptions associated with that tradition and instead develops what he calls the psychologization, or repsychologization, of the emotions. Addressing repsychologization of the mind and its contents as a major theme, the author offers sustained discussion of the opinions of Sartre, William James, Freud, Melanie Klein, Stendhal, Montaigne, and Bertrand Russell.