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In Defense of Sentimentality

by Robert C. Solomon

  • Hardback
  • 318 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but an understanding of the emotions, not as curious but marginal psychological phenomena but as the very substance of life. In this, the second book in a series devoted to his work on the emotions, Robert Solomon presents a defense of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of what he perceives as a long history of abuse in philosophy and social thought and art and literary criticism. The title piece reopens a classic debate about the role of sentimentality in art and literature. In subsequent chapters, Solomon discusses not only such "moral sentiments" as sympathy and compassion but also grief, gratitude, love, horror, and even vengeance. He also defends, with appropriate caution, the "seven deadly sins". The emotions-at least, some emotions-are essential to a well-lived life. They are or can be virtues, features of the human condition without which civilized life would be unimaginable.
In Defense of Sentimentality and From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds, 2nd
From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds, 2ndIn Defense of Sentimentality

  • Author

    Robert C. Solomon

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 2004

  • Weight

    604g

  • Page Count

    318

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195145502

  • ISBN-10

    019514550X

  • Eden Code

    4562296

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