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A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing: The Meanings of Emotion

By Jerome Neu

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0195160290, 9780195160291, 0195123379, 9780195123371
Open Library ID
OL7388563M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25462115 bytes)
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Pages
350\350
DPI
600
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes a sexual desire "perverse," or particular sexual relations (such as incestuous ones) undesirable or even unthinkable? These and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity are pursued using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines. The discussion throughout is informed and motivated by the Spinozist hope that understanding our lives can help change them, can help make us more free.

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