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True to Our Feelings - Robert C. Solomon

True to Our Feelings

What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-536853-6 (ISBN)
CHF 35,90 inkl. MwSt
The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings , Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more 'true to our feelings' and cultivate emotional integrity.

Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A past president of the International Society for Research on Emotions, he is the author of more than forty books, including The Passions, The Joy of Philosophy, Spirituality for the Skeptic, Not Passion's Slave and In Defense of Sentimentality (Volumes 1 and 2 of a three-volume series, The Passionate Life ). He lectures and gives seminars around the world and has done several video and audio 'Superstar Teacher' courses for the Teaching Company.

PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: EMOTIONAL STRATEGIES: AN EXISTENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE; PART II: TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY: MYTHS ABOUT EMOTIONS; PART III: THE ETHICS OF EMOTION: A QUEST FOR EMOTIONAL INTEGRITY; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.10.2008
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 221 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-19-536853-3 / 0195368533
ISBN-13 978-0-19-536853-6 / 9780195368536
Zustand Neuware
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