Emotions of the Past – serie
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Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World
Av Ruth R. Caston, Robert A. Kaster
Inbunden, 2016
1689 kr
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost entirely on negative emotions. …
The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy
Av Curie Virág
Inbunden, 2017
1576 kr
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In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around the 4th century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke psychological categories such as the mind (xin), human nature (xing), and emotions (qing) to explain the sources of ethical authority and the foundations of our …
The Ancient Emotion of Disgust
Inbunden, 2016
1754 kr
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The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and …
Reading Roman Pride
Av Yelena Baraz
Inbunden, 2020
1388 kr
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Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspectives. The first is based on scripts, mini-stories told to illustrate what pride is, how it arises …
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World
Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Av Douglas Cairns, Curie Virág
Inbunden, 2024
1176 kr
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in the two …
Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life
Inbunden, 2024
1025 kr
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Despite recent developments in the history of emotions and in comparative studies, sustained cross-cultural comparative studies of the emotions remain few and far between. Jingyi Jenny Zhao has produced the first major work that takes two philosophers from the ancient Greek and early Chinese …
Feelings Transformed
Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670
Inbunden, 2018
1378 kr
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What are emotions? How do they arise? How do they relate to other mental and bodily states? And what is their specific structure? The book discusses these questions, focusing on medieval and early modern theories. It looks at a great number of authors, ranging from Aquinas to Spinoza, and shows …
Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens
A Socio-Psychological Approach
Av Ed Sanders
Inbunden, 2014
2283 kr
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Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of envy and jealousy in Classical Athens. Previous …
The Elegiac Passion
Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy
Inbunden, 2012
2283 kr
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The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity, as evidenced by the recent surge of interest and research in the emotions in Greek and Roman literature. Until now, however, there has been very little focus on love elegy or its relation to contemporary philosophical positions. Yet …
