The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life / Edition 1

by Robert C. Solomon

Overview

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872202269
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/1993
Edition description:	ABR
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. His The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life is also available from Hackett Publishing Company.

Editorial Reviews

A mature, wise, and provocative work . . . . The main lines of argument—that the emotions are ways we constitute our lives with meaning; that they are in some important sense things we do rather than things that merely happen to us; that emotions have their own sort of rationality and logic and are subject to evaluation and criticism as such; that emotions are, in some important sense, evaluative judgments—remain an important, credible contemporary view. . . . Solomon is clear, clever, and deep (also often funny). —Owen Flanagan, Duke University

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