Shame and Philosophy: An Investigation in the Philosophy of Emotions and Ethics

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Springer, May 29, 2008 - Philosophy - 190 pages
Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Philosophy Science and What Emotions Really Are
7
2 To Make Our Voices Resonate or To Be Silent? Shame as Fundamental Ontology
42
3 Emotion Cognition and World
87
4 Shame and World
123
Notes
156
Bibliography
181
Index
189
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PHIL HUTCHINSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His philosophical interests include Wittgenstein and Philosophical Method, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Emotions, Film, and Rhetoric and Informal Logic.

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