| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) |
| Contents |
Beginnings -- Philosophical approaches to ambivalence: a roadmap of a rough terrain -- Life with ambivalence -- Unity in plurality: the case of emotional ambivalence -- Behavioural conflict: the case of emotional ambivalence -- Conscious ambivalence and its bearings on the character of consciousness -- Pursuits of harmony, integration, and Freud's person -- Structures of ambivalence -- Self-deception, ambivalence of belief, and basic rationality -- Ambivalence of value judgement, deliberation, and the logic of value -- The openness of desire and action in ambivalence |
| Summary |
Combining Analytic and Continental approaches, this book provides a detailed analysis of mental ambivalence and its structures, forms and possibilities, in a philosophical context. The author explores ambivalence alongside issues relating to subjectivity, action and judgement, developing new and highly original accounts of these concepts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 26, 2017) |
| Subject |
Ambivalence.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Ambivalence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016041375 |
| ISBN |
9781786601544 |
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1786601540 |
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