Description
Book SynopsisA survey of astonishing breadth and penetration. No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of the emotions without reading this book, twice.
Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL
There is not a slack moment in the whole of this impressive work. With his remarkable facility for making fine distinctions, and his commitment to lucidity, Peter Hacker has subtly characterized those emotions such as pride, shame, envy, jealousy, love or sympathy which make up our all too human nature. This is an important book for philosophers but since most of its illustrative material comes from an astonishing range of British and European literature, it is required reading also for literary scholars, or indeed for anyone with an interest in understanding who and what we are.
David Ellis, University of Kent
Human beings are all subject to boundless flights of joy and delight, to flashes of anger and fear, to pangs of sadness a
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Part I Sketching the Landscape 1
Chapter 1 The Place of the Emotions among the Passions 3
Chapter 2 The Analytic of the Emotions I 37
Chapter 3 The Analytic of the Emotions II 60
Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Emotions 83
Part II Human, All Too Human 129
Chapter 5 Pride, Arrogance, and Humility 131
Chapter 6 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt 152
Chapter 7 Envy 183 1. Envy and jealousy: a pair of vicious emotions 183
Chapter 8 Jealousy 208
Chapter 9 Anger 232
Part III The Saving Graces: Love, Friendship, and Sympathy 265
Chapter 10 Love 267
Chapter 11 Friendship 327
Chapter 12 Sympathy and Empathy
Appendix: Moments in the History of Love 393
1. The history of love 393
2. Ancient Israel 395
3. Ancient Greece 402
4. From pagan Rome to Christian Rome 410
5. Early Christianity 417
6. The deification of love 426
Index 438
