The Logic of Affect

Most attempts to trace the roots of current scientific approaches to the mind have ignored the contributions of post-Kantian German idealism. Paul Redding here shows the relevance of this philosophical tradition to an understanding of the mind and its embodiment as well as the relation of feeling to cognition. This innovative book demonstrates how new insights can be brought to the study of mentality and consciousness by considering previously overlooked interpretations.

First sentence: Creating an aphorism that would prove irresistible to many later investigators into affective life, Pascal wrote: "The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know."

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Editions

3

Pages

224

ISBN

9780801435911

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