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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 128.3709032; 128/.37/09032
• Soggetto topico: Emotions (Philosophy) - History - 17th century; Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GaukrogerStephen
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The soft underbelly of reason
• ISBN: 1-134-69815-1; 1-280-18272-5; 9786610182725; 0-203-44851-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451244803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; ; 1.