A philosophical examination of the emotions as highly discriminating responses to what is of value.

A philosophical examination of the emotions as highly discriminating responses to what is of value.

English summary: Is compassion an emotion or a virtue? What characterizes a Christian understanding of compassion? What is its relationship to the Passion of Ch

In the past the passions were regarded as sicknesses of the soul due to Adam's sin. As the Redeemer, Christ shares in our humanity and experiences the passions,

The Oxford handbook of cognitive literary studies' applies developments in cognitive science to a wide range of literary texts that span multiple historical per

In Proust and Emotion, Inge Crosman Wimmers proposes a new approach to A la recherche du temps perdu that centres on the role of affect. Through close reading o

There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality broadly is inade

This highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social scientis

Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipoten