Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason

by Talia Morag

Book Overview

We don't choose our emotions and they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to get it wrong: we experience wrongdoing but do not feel anger, feel fear but recognise there is no danger. Yet often we expect emotions to be reasonable, intelligible and appropriate responses to certain situations. How do we explain these apparent contradictions?

Emotion, Imagination and the Limits of Reason

presents a bold, new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138559520
• ISBN13: 9781138559523
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"