Passion & Action

by Susan James and Susan James

Book Overview

Passion and Action is an exploration of the role of the passions in seventeenth-century thought. Susan James offers fresh readings of a broad range of thinkers, including such canonical figures as Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke, and shows that a full understanding of their philosophies must take account of their interpretations of our affective life. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198236743
• ISBN13: 9780198236740
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"