Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 445 p.)
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21 cm
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Content:
This book provides a historical overview of psychological theories regarding feeling and emotion. Topics discussed include the following: (1) The Beginnings of a Doctrine of the Affections: from Heraclitus to Plato, (2) The Doctrine of Pleasure, Pain, and Emotion in Aristotle, (3) Ancient Theories of the Affections, (4) Patristic and Medieval Doctrines of the Affections, (5) Affective Psychology in the Period of the Renaissance, (6) Systems of the "Passions" in the Seventeenth Century: Descartes and Malebranche, (7) Systems of the "Passions" in the Seventeenth Century: Hobbes and Spinoza, (8) Affective Psychology in the Eighteenth Century: British Moralists and Associationists, (9) Affective Psychology in the Eighteenth Century: French and German, (10) Affective Psychology in the Nineteenth Century, and (11) Affective Psychology in the Twentieth Century. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2005; Available via the World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2005 dcunns
Language:
English
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