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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300618303321

Autore

Starkstein Sergio

Titolo

A Conceptual and Therapeutic Analysis of Fear / / by Sergio Starkstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-78349-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Medicine—Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.Introduction -- 2.The Epicurean concept of fear and the road to ataraxia -- 3.Roman fears -- 4.Montaigne’s Essays -- 5. Thomas Hobbes and fear -- 6. Descartes and the mechanization of fear -- 7. James’s fears and Wittgenstein’s therapy -- 8. Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytical concept of fear -- 9. The medicalization and social construction of fear in the age of anxiety -- 10. Conclusions -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

There is an important gap in the philosophical literature concerning the concept of fear and its remedies, and this book has been designed to examine different concepts of fear that inform its therapy. Structured as a historical-philosophical investigation of the concept of fear, this book is not a purely historical analysis of fear but also provides a broad brushwork rendition of the main concepts of fear as presented by selected philosophers and thinkers, and how they have approached its therapy.