The Concept Of Affectivity In Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Ádám Smrcz,Maximilian Kiener,Jan Forsman,Hanna Vandenbussche,Davide Monaco,Filip Buyse,Keith Green,Brian Glenney,Chiristopher Davidson,Zsolt Bagi,Dávid Bartha,Dan O'Brien,Hans D. Muller,Csaba Olay
Publisher : Gyöngyösi Megyer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789632848204

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The Concept of Affectivity in Early Modern Philosophy by Ádám Smrcz,Maximilian Kiener,Jan Forsman,Hanna Vandenbussche,Davide Monaco,Filip Buyse,Keith Green,Brian Glenney,Chiristopher Davidson,Zsolt Bagi,Dávid Bartha,Dan O'Brien,Hans D. Muller,Csaba Olay Pdf

There is no need to argue for the relevance of affectivity in early modern philosophy. When doing research and conceptualizing affectivity in this period, we hope to attain a basicinterpretive framework for philosophy in general, one that is independent of and cutting across such unfruitful divisions as the time-honored interpretive distinction between “rationalists” and “empiricists”, which we consider untenable when applied to 17th-century thinkers. Our volume consists of papers based on the contributions to the First Budapest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, held on 14–15 October 2016 at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. When composing this volume, our aim was not to present a systematic survey of affectivity in early modern philosophy. Rather, our more modest goal was to foster collaboration among researchers working in different countries and different traditions. Many of the papers published here are already in implicit or explicit dialogue with others. We hope that they will generate more of an exchange of ideas in the broader field of early modern scholarship.

Author : Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110260922

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Emotional Minds by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer Pdf

The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today’s research about the emotionality of the mind. The analyses of the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and many other thinkers collected in this volume offer new insights into the diversity and significance of philosophical reflections about emotions during the early modern era. A focus is placed on affective components in learning processes and the boundaries between emotions and reason.

Author : Martin Pickavé,Lisa Shapiro
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191655470

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Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy by Martin Pickavé,Lisa Shapiro Pdf

This volume offers a much needed shift of focus in the study of emotion in the history of philosophy. Discussion has tended to focus on the moral relevance of emotions, and (except in ancient philosophy) the role of emotions in cognitive life has received little attention. Thirteen new essays investigate the continuities between medieval and early modern thinking about the emotions, and open up a contemporary debate on the relationship between emotions, cognition, and reason, and the way emotions figure in our own cognitive lives. A team of leading philosophers of the medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods explore these ideas from the point of view of four key themes: the situation of emotions within the human mind; the intentionality of emotions and their role in cognition; emotions and action; the role of emotion in self-understanding and the social situation of individuals.

Author : Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137561268

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Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts by Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi Pdf

The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring: the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action; the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems; and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body.

Author : Anik Waldow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317230786

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Sensibility in the Early Modern Era by Anik Waldow Pdf

Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the body could give way to complex considerations about the importance of affect in morality. What underlies this understanding of sensibility is the attempt to fuse Lockean sensationism with Scottish sentimentalism – being able to have experiences of objects in the world is here seen as being grounded in the same principle that also enables us to feel moral sentiments. Moral and epistemic ways of relating to the world thus blend into one another, as both can be traced to the same capacity that enables us to affectively respond to stimuli that impinge on our perceptual apparatus. This collection focuses on these connections by offering reflections on the role of sensibility in the early modern attempt to think of the human being as a special kind of sensitive machine and affectively responsive animal. Humans, as they are understood in this context, relate to themselves by sensing themselves and perpetually refining their intellectual and moral capacities in response to the way the world affects them. Responding to the world here refers to the manner in which both natural and man-made influences impact on our ability to conceptualise the animate and inanimate world, and our place within that world. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review.

Author : Lisa Shapiro,Marcy P. Lascano
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770488199

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Early Modern Philosophy by Lisa Shapiro,Marcy P. Lascano Pdf

This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology but also new themes such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions, and love. It contains the works of 43 philosophers, including traditionally taught figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, as well as less familiar writers such as Lord Shaftesbury, Anton Amo, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, and Denis Diderot. It also highlights the contributions of women philosophers, including Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Gabrielle Suchon, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, and Emilie Du Châtelet.

Author : Bettina Varwig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190943899

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Rethinking Bach by Bettina Varwig Pdf

This book a offers a multitude of provocative new perspectives on one of the most iconic composers in the Western classical tradition. Its collective rethinking of some of our most cherished narratives and deeply held beliefs about Johann Sebastian Bach will allow readers to see the man in a new light and to hear his music with new ears.

Author : Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316517697

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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann Pdf

The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315441351

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Early Modern Emotions by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly. The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. The first explains how key terms and concepts in the study of emotions relate to early modern Europe, while the second focuses on the unique ways in which emotions were conceptualized at the time. The third section introduces a range of sources and methodologies that are used to analyse early modern emotions. The final section includes a wide-ranging selection of thematic topics covering war, religion, family, politics, art, music, literature and the non-human world to show how analysis of emotions may offer new perspectives on the early modern period more broadly. Each section offers bite-sized, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions with the tools to begin their own investigations. Each entry is supported by annotated further reading recommendations pointing students to the latest research in that area and at the end of the book is a general bibliography, which provides a comprehensive list of current scholarship. This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study emotions in early modern Europe.

Author : Andreea Marculescu,Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319606699

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Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Andreea Marculescu,Charles-Louis Morand Métivier Pdf

This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.

Author : Stuart Pethick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137486066

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Affectivity and Philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche by Stuart Pethick Pdf

Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect.

Author : Marianne Liljeström,Susanna Paasonen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134017898

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Working with Affect in Feminist Readings by Marianne Liljeström,Susanna Paasonen Pdf

Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences explores the place and function of affect in feminist knowledge production, investigating what it means to work with and through affect, as well as the kinds of ethical and methodological challenges that this involves.

Author : Desmond M. Clarke,Catherine Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191654251

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe by Desmond M. Clarke,Catherine Wilson Pdf

In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication of Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Berkeley's reflections on Newton and Locke saw one of the most fundamental changes in the history of our way of thinking about the universe. This radical transformation of worldview was partly a response to what we now call the Scientific Revolution; it was equally a reflection of political changes that were no less fundamental, which included the establishment of nation-states and some of the first attempts to formulate a theory of international rights and justice. Finally, the Reformation and its aftermath undermined the apparent unity of the Christian church in Europe and challenged both religious beliefs that had been accepted for centuries and the interpretation of the Bible on which they had been based. The Handbook surveys a number of the most important developments in the philosophy of the period, as these are expounded both in texts that have since become very familiar and in other philosophical texts that are undeservedly less well-known. It also reaches beyond the philosophy to make evident the fluidity of the boundary with science, and to consider the impact on philosophy of historical and political events—explorations, revolutions and reforms, inventions and discoveries. Thus it not only offers a guide to the most important areas of recent research, but also offers some new questions for historians of philosophy to pursue and to have indicated areas that are ripe for further exploration.

Author : Donald R. Wehrs,Thomas Blake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319633039

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The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism by Donald R. Wehrs,Thomas Blake Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism, as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and aesthetics. Guiding readers to the variety of topics, themes, interdisciplinary dialogues, and sub-disciplinary specialties that the study of interplay between affect and texts has either inaugurated or revitalized, the handbook showcases and engages the diversity of scholarly topics, approaches, and projects that thinking of affect in relation to texts and related media open up or enable. These include (but are not limited to) investigations of what attention to affect brings to established methods of studying texts—in terms of period, genre, cultural contexts, rhetoric, and individual authorship.

Author : Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy by Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe Pdf