Emotion and imagination / Adam Morton
- Author
- Morton, Adam, 1945-
- Published
- Cambridge : Polity, 2013.
- Physical Description
- viii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I The range of emotions -- Refined emotions -- Imagining in emotion -- Seeing as -- Emotions and thinking -- Keeping mood and emotion distinct -- Pressure -- Categories of emotion -- pt. II Imagining vile emotions -- Imagining what we shouldn't feel -- Imagining minds: emotions and perspectives -- Imagining a point of view -- Misimagination -- Imagining invented characters: fiction and philosophy -- Invisible everyday failures -- Imagining awful actions -- Sympathy versus empathy -- The tradeoff -- pt. III Memotions -- The threat of irrelevance -- Retracting emotions -- Emotions with multiple points of view -- The variety of moral emotions -- Emotional learning -- Smugness -- pt. IV Families of emotions -- The ideas and the questions -- Shame, regret, embarrassment, remorse -- Shame-like versus regret-like -- Ghosts -- Looking backward and looking inward -- Gaps in the pattern: shame versus guilt -- Two kinds of pride -- The smug family -- Dark humour, radical possibilities -- Shaping our emotions -- End: a virtue of imagination.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780745649573 (hbk.)
0745649572 (hbk.)
0745649580 (pbk.)
9780745649580 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction Note
- Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
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