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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814376303321

Titolo

The soft underbelly of reason : the passions in the seventeenth century / / edited by Stephen Gaukroger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-69814-3

1-134-69815-1

1-280-18272-5

9786610182725

0-203-44851-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

GaukrogerStephen

Disciplina

128.3709032

128/.37/09032

Soggetti

Emotions (Philosophy) - History - 17th century

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Explaining the passions: passions, desires, and the explanation of action; Rationalizing the passions: Spinoza on reason and the passions; Reading the passions: the Fall, the passions, and dominion over nature; Painting the passions: the Passions de l'me as a basis for pictorial expression; Controlling the passions: passion, memory, and the moral physiology of self in seventeenth-century neurophilosophy

Restraining the passions: hydropneumatics and hierarchy in the philosophy of Thomas WillisIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century.