The Passions : A Study of Human Nature.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Philosophy -- Part I Sketching the Landscape -- Chapter 1 The Place of the Emotions among the Passions -- 1. Passions, affections, and appetites -- 2. Agitations and moods -- 3. Emotions -- Chapter 2 The Analytic of the Emotions I -- 1. The representation of emotions -- 2. The language of the emotions -- 3. Expressions and manifestations of emotion -- 4. Emotion, cognition, and the will -- Chapter 3 The Analytic of the Emotions II -- 1. The epistemology of the emotions -- 2. Emotion and reason -- 3. The place of the emotions in human life -- Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Emotions -- 1. The Cartesian and empiricist legacies and their invalidation -- 2. Philosophical and psychological confusions: James -- 3. Neuroscientific confusions: Damasio and the somatic marker hypothesis -- 4. Evolutionary accounts of the emotions: Darwin and Ekman -- 5. The quest for basic emotions -- Part II Human, All Too Human -- Chapter 5 Pride, Arrogance, and Humility -- 1. The web of pride -- 2. Shifting evaluations of pride -- 3. Pride: connective analysis -- Chapter 6 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt -- 1. Shame cultures and guilt cultures -- 2. Shame and embarrassment: connective analysis -- 3. Guilt: connective analysis -- Chapter 7 Envy -- 1. Envy and jealousy: a pair of vicious emotions -- 2. Envy and jealousy: conceptual unclarity -- 3. Envy and jealousy: their conceptual roots -- 4. Envy: iconography, mythology, and iconology -- 5. Envy: connective analysis -- Chapter 8 Jealousy -- 1. Different centres of variation -- 2. Iconography -- 3. Jealousy: connective analysis -- 4. Jealousy and envy again -- Chapter 9 Anger -- 1. The phenomena of anger -- 2. The vocabulary of anger -- 3. Anger: connective analysis -- 4. Conceptions of anger in antiquity.

5. Is acting in anger warranted? -- Part III The Saving Graces: Love, Friendship, and Sympathy -- Chapter 10 Love -- 1. Concepts and conceptions of love -- 2. The biological and social roots of love -- 3. The objects of love -- 4. Historico-normative constraints -- 5. The phases of love -- 6. The web of concepts of love -- 7. The iconography of love -- 8. Connective analysis I: categorial complexity -- 9. Connective analysis II: peculiarities of love as an emotion -- 10. Connective analysis III: some characteristic features of love -- 11. Self-love -- Chapter 11 Friendship -- 1. Friendship and love -- 2. The roots and marks of different forms of friendship -- 3. Analysis of the relation -- 4. Friendship, virtue, and morality -- Chapter 12 Sympathy and Empathy -- 1. Sympathy: the historical background -- 2. The analysis of sympathy -- 3. Empathy: from Einfühlung to mirror neurons -- 4. Empathy and sympathy -- 5. Envoi -- Appendix: Moments in the History of Love -- 1. The history of love -- 2. Ancient Israel -- 4. From pagan Rome to Christian Rome -- 5. Early Christianity -- 6. The deification of love -- Index -- EULA.

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