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Title The soft underbelly of reason : the passions in the seventeenth century / edited by Stephen Gaukroger
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 1
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 1.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Explaining the passions: passions, desires, and the explanation of action; Rationalizing the passions: Spinoza on reason and the passions; Reading the passions: the Fall, the passions, and dominion over nature; Painting the passions: the Passions de l'me as a basis for pictorial expression; Controlling the passions: passion, memory, and the moral physiology of self in seventeenth-century neurophilosophy
Summary Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Emotions (Philosophy) -- History -- 17th century
Philosophy.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Emotions (Philosophy)
Philosophy
Leidenschaft
Konzeption
Hartstochten.
Passions (philosophie) -- 17e siècle.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Gaukroger, Stephen
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