True to our feelings : what our emotions are really telling us /

Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective. 1. Anger as a Way of Engaging the World. 2. Why It Is Good to Be Afraid. 3. Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods. 4. Lessons of Love (and Plato's Symposium). 5. We Are Not Alone: Comp...

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Main Author: Solomon, Robert C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Summary:Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective. 1. Anger as a Way of Engaging the World. 2. Why It Is Good to Be Afraid. 3. Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods. 4. Lessons of Love (and Plato's Symposium). 5. We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy. 6. Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness. 7. Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride. 8. Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance. Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions. 9. What an Emotion Theory Should Do. 10. Myth 1: Emotions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 286 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.
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