Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason - Couverture rigide

Morag, Talia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138656941 ISBN 13 : 9781138656949

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

We don't choose our emotions and they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to get it wrong: we experience wrongdoing but do not feel anger, feel fear but recognise there is no danger. Yet often we expect emotions to be reasonable, intelligible and appropriate responses to certain situations. How do we explain these apparent contradictions?

Emotion, Imagination and the Limits of Reason presents a bold, new picture of the emotions that challenges prevailing philosophical orthodoxy. Talia Morag argues that too much emphasis has been placed on the 'reasonableness' of emotions and far too little on two neglected areas: the imagination and the unconscious. She uses these to propose a new philosophical and psychoanalytic conception of the emotions

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Talia Morag is a postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University, Australia. She is the director of Psyche + Society, which brings discussions about social psychology to the wider public.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138656941
• ISBN 13: 9781138656949
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
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• Personne responsable: non disponible