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Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason (Hardcover)
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Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason (Hardcover)
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The emotions pose many philosophical questions. We don't choose
them; they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to
get it wrong: we experience wrongdoing but do not feel anger, feel
fear but recognise there is no danger. Yet often we expect emotions
to be reasonable, intelligible and appropriate responses to certain
situations. How do we explain these apparent contradictions?
Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason presents a bold new
picture of the emotions that challenges prevailing philosophical
orthodoxy. Talia Morag argues that too much emphasis has been
placed on the "reasonableness" of emotions and far too little on
two neglected areas: the imagination and the unconscious. She uses
these to propose a new philosophical and psychoanalytic conception
of the emotions that challenges the perceived rationality of
emotions; views the emotions as fundamental to determining one's
self-image; and bases therapy on the ability to "listen" to one's
emotional episode as it occurs. Emotion, Imagination, and the
Limits of Reason is one of the first books to connect philosophical
research on the emotions to psychoanalysis. It will be essential
reading for those studying ethics, the emotions, moral psychology
and philosophy of psychology as well as those interested in
psychoanalysis.
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