Publication

1999 - Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing3368509

Classifications

  • LCCBF531.W65 1999

Description

"Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they are - like beliefs and desiresdispositions or underlying forces in the mind that erupt from time to time into the stream of consciousness. However, to assimilate emotions to beliefs or to desires or to some combination of the two is quite wrong. Emotions are attitudes or orientations to the world, says the author, and in this regard they are naturally associated with the imagination."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Ernest Cassirer lectures ; 1991

Other Editions

  • On the emotionsYale University Press1999

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