LEADER 04245nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910778216303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-1410-3 010 $a1-282-15895-3 010 $a9786612158957 010 $a1-4008-2489-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824892 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788576 035 $a(EBL)457791 035 $a(OCoLC)52256495 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266927 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11254394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266927 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322816 035 $a(PQKB)11114474 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12062635 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332756 035 $a(PQKB)11688845 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36149 035 $a(DE-B1597)446169 035 $a(OCoLC)979834595 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457791 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312632 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457791 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788576 100 $a20011016d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe vehement passions$b[electronic resource] /$fPhilip Fisher 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-06996-4 311 $a0-691-11572-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261) and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tONE. Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions -- $tTWO. Paths among the Passions -- $tTHREE. Thoroughness -- $tFOUR. Privacy, Radical Singularity -- $tFIVE. Time -- $tSIX. Rashness -- $tSEVEN. Mutual Fear -- $tEIGHT. The Aesthetics of Fear -- $tNINE. The Radius of the Will -- $tTEN. Anger and Diminution -- $tELEVEN. Grief -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tNOTES -- $tAUTHOR INDEX -- $tINDEX OF TERMS 330 $aBreaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world. 606 $aEmotions (Philosophy) 615 0$aEmotions (Philosophy) 676 $a128/.37 700 $aFisher$b Philip$f1941-$01523004 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778216303321 996 $aThe vehement passions$93861423 997 $aUNINA