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Passion and Action : The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy by Susan James is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Passion and Action : The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy about?
Passion and Action is an exploration of the role of the passions in seventeenth-century thought. Susan James offers fresh readings of a broad range of thinkers, including such canonical figures as Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke, and shows that a full understanding of their philosophies must take account of their interpretations of our affective life. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, knowledge, and action, and provides a historical context for burgeoning current debates about the emotions.
Who reads Passion and Action : The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Susan James
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198250135
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Humanities