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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199725601 0199725608 9780199852031 0199852030 1281930962 9781281930965 0195368533 9780195368536 9780198026020 0198026021 |