The vehement passions

The vehement passions / Philip Fisher.

Breaking 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. Intens...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Philip, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Emotions (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Emoties.
Filosofische aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Passions, Strong Emotions, Vehement Occasions
  • 2. Paths among the Passions
  • 3. Thoroughness
  • 4. Privacy, Radical Singularity
  • 5. Time
  • 6. Rashness
  • 7. Mutual Fear
  • 8. The Aesthetics of Fear
  • 9. The Radius of the Will
  • 10. Anger and Diminution
  • 11. Grief
  • 12. Spiritedness.

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