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Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they rather suffused with intelligence and discernment, and thus a source of deep awareness and understanding? In this compelling book, Martha C. Nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value and importance. She explores and…mehr

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Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they rather suffused with intelligence and discernment, and thus a source of deep awareness and understanding? In this compelling book, Martha C. Nussbaum presents a powerful argument for treating emotions not as alien forces but as highly discriminating responses to what is of value and importance. She explores and illuminates the structure of a wide range of emotions, in particular compassion and love, showing that there can be no adequate ethical theory without an adequate theory of the emotions. This involves understanding their cultural sources, their history in infancy and childhood, and their sometimes unpredictable and disorderly operations in our daily lives.

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Autorenporträt
Martha C. Nussbaum, geboren 1947, ist Ernst Freud Professor of Law and Ethics an der University of Chicago. An derselben Universität lehrt sie außerdem in den Fächern Rechtswissenschaft, Theologie und Klassische Philologie. Neben zahlreichen Schriften zur Philosophie der Antike hat sie vor allem Arbeiten über moralphilosophische Themen veröffentlicht. Dabei behandelt sie oft Fragen am Schnittpunkt zwischen Ethik, öffentlicher Moral, Literatur und Problemen des Feminismus. 1993 hielt sie die renommierten Gifford Lectures über Themen der Moralphilosophie und der Philosophie der Psychologie.
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'... a staggering feat of synthesis...creates an argument for the dignity and moral efficacy of emotion that is not only an intellectual tour de force but a moving triumph of humanistic thinking.' New York Times Book Review