The passions of the minde (1601).
Author: Thomas D. D. Wright
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
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Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9783487403625
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A Dissertation on the Passions
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0199251886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-20
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0521875595
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Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
Author: Andrew James Johnston
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1784996173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.
Passion's Triumph Over Reason
Author: Christopher Tilmouth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-11-11
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0199593043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Tilmouth presents an accomplished study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control in the literature and moral thought of the late 16th and 17th centuries (1580 to 1680).
Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature
Author: Teresa Scott Soufas
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826207142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Employing a broad historical perspective that forces the reevaluation of historical and literary commonplaces, Soufas artfully illuminates the complex responses of Spanish Golden Age authors to major shifts in European intellectual outlook during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century."--Publishers website.
The Faculties
Author: Dominik Perler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-05-29
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0199935262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind. They show that faculties were referred to in different theoretical contexts, but analyzed in radically different ways. Some philosophers, especially Aristotelians, made them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological theories, taking them to be basic powers of living beings. Others took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities, while still others provided a purely functional explanation. The chapters focus on various models, taking into account Greek, Arabic, Latin, French, German and Anglo-American debates. They analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology, but also the attack that was often launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real features of living beings. The short "Reflections" inserted between the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed in literature, science and medicine.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Michael Neill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 1179
ISBN-13: 0191036153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy, and addresses questions of genre by examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and medieval past. The second section is devoted to current textual issues, while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The book's final section expands readers' awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia.
Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse
Author: E. Heale
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-13
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1403932697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version of the author. This book examines ways in which writers, often seeking advancement in their careers, harnessed verse for self-promotional purposes. Texts studied include a manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne, printed verse by a woman, Isabella Whitney, travel and war narratives, as well as canonical texts by Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare.
Re-Humanising Shakespeare
Author: Andrew Mousley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-06-19
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0748629971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live? Re-Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare himself contributed to the uncertainties of modern living, his work can still serve as a source of existential wisdom and guidance.The book examines through a wide range of Shakespeare's plays the conditions under which human beings flourish or perish. Love, ethics, emotion, vulnerability and humility are amongst the topics discussed as part of the book's argument that Shakespeare is continually at pains to reclaim the human from its complete liquefaction. Given the range and originality of its approach, Re-Humanising Shakespeare will make provocative reading for all those interested in Shakespeare, ethics and questions of literary value.
