Reflections on Sentiment
Reflections on Sentiment

Author: Alessa Johns

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781611495904

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As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period s touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from moral treatises and religious debates to interrogations of gender and family relations, from fictional tests of boundaries between human and non-human species to innovations in the forms of poetry, the novel, and the literary marketplace itself."

Sound Sentiment
Sound Sentiment

Author: Peter Kivy

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780877226772

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Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of The Corded Shell, answering various criticisms.

The Sentimental Mode
The Sentimental Mode

Author: Jennifer A. Williamson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 078647341X

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This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental mode; an analysis of 20th and 21st century narratives, however, reveals an ongoing use of sentimental expression that draws upon its ability to instruct and influence readers through their emotions. While these later narratives employ aspects of the sentimental mode, many of them also engage in a critique of the failures of the sentimental, deconstructing 19th century perspectives on race, class and gender and the ways they are promoted by sentimental ideals.

Essays on Mind and Sentiment
Essays on Mind and Sentiment

Author: Edmund Karani

Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781780883984

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Essays on Mind and Sentiment is a philosophy text, accessibly written (because it is as much a personal analysis, as it is an academic endeavour), which brings major philosophical issues to the attention of general readers as well as students of philosophy. The author himself, was a student of philosophy some thirty years ago, and has had the benefit of debating these issues with leaders in that field of study. The Essays is a personal analysis of some of the cornerstones of modern Western philosophy, namely, language and reification, the nature of truth, time and causation, mind and knowledge, and that frequently misunderstood but popular issue known as freedom of will. That comprises the subject matter of Part I of this book. Part II is the author's analysis of religious sentiment and morality, and covers areas such as the nature of religious dogma, and of god-head; as well as the ethical and quasi-ethical concepts often associated with the better known religions, and their antitheses, namely, altruism and selfishness, aggression and gentleness, pride and humility, justice and injustice. The book does not aim to be polemical in intent, but seeks rather to elicit discussion.

On Emotions
On Emotions

Author: John Deigh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199876517

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This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war, death, our intellectual life, authenticity, personal identity, self-knowledge, and science. Several break new ground in the field. Others extend and deepen work for which their authors are well-known. All but two of the essays are new. Contributors include Noel Carroll, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Woodruff, Laurence Thomas, Kathleen Higgins, Michael Stocker, Nancy Sherman, Jerome Neu, Charles Nussbaum, and Robert Roberts. The book honors the memory of Robert C. Solomon, whose influential work in the philosophy of emotions helped mold the field for over three decades. An introductory essay explains the development and importance of Solomon's thought in this field.