Ascent of Affect Leys Ruth Paperback
Ascent of Affect Leys Ruth Paperback In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of…
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Ascent of Affect Leys Ruth Paperback
In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. The Ascent of Affect focuses on the post-World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings.Ruth Leys's brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and disagreement.
Addressing Leys analyzes the ongoing debate over how to understand emotions, paying particular attention to the continual conflict between camps that argue for the intentionality or meaning of emotions but have trouble explaining their presence in non-human animals and those that argue for the universality of emotions but struggle when the question turns to meaning.