The Subtlety of Emotions by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

The Subtlety of Emotions by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

An informal yet rigorous exploration of human emotions in all their complexity and subtlety.

Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as jealousy? Although emotions pervade our lives, their nature, causes, and effects have only recently been studied by social scientists and philosophers. Despite growing scientific interest in the subject, empirical findings have not yet caught up with our intuitive knowledge. In this book Aaron Ben-Ze'ev carries out what he calls a careful search for general patterns in the primeval jungle of emotions. In an engaging, informal style he draws on a variety of theoretical approaches and popular sources to produce a coherent account of emotions in all their subtlety. All of the ideas are illustrated with examples drawn from everyday life.

The book is organized into two parts. The first presents an overall conceptual framework for understanding emotions. It looks at the typical characteristics and components of emotions, distinguishes emotions from other affective phenomena, classifies the emotions, and covers such related issues as emotional intelligence, regulating emotions, and emotions and morality. The second part discusses individual emotions, including envy, jealousy, pleasure-in-others'-misfortune, pity, compassion, anger, hate, disgust, love, sexual desire, happiness, sadness, pride, regret, and shame. The text is laced with insightful and often amusing quotations from sources ranging from Mae West to Montesquieu.

The Author: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Ben-Ze'ev's main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, he has written a commentary to Aristotle's On the Soul, he has edited a book on Gossip and he is presently completing a book on Emotions.

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ISBN 13	9780262523196
ISBN 10	0262523191
Title	The Subtlety of Emotions
Author	Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Series	The Subtlety Of Emotions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2001-08-24
Number of pages	628
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