Product Description: This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? If what we feel and what we think are beyond the direct control of our will, does it make sense to set norms or standards for us to aim at in those spheres, or does anything go? What are the limits of our freedom? And what are the sources of our standards? Are they themselves a matter of arbitrary feeling or do there exist authorities we might turn to in order to find our way? We are told that authenticity is valuable, that we must be true to ourselves...read more

Product Description: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." This schoolyard rhyme projects an invulnerability to verbal insults that sounds good but rings false. Indeed, the need for such a verse belies its own claims. For most of us, feeling insulted is a distressing-and distressingly common-experience...read more

Product Description: This book features a previously unpublished autobiographical essay by Norman O. Brown, along with critical essays by many of his colleagues and friends, including Jay Cantor, Helene Moglen, James Clifford, Hayden White and Carl Schorske...read more

Product Description: Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What makes a sexual desire "perverse," or particular sexual relations (such as incestuous ones) undesirable or even unthinkable? These and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity are pursued using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ¿Tiene aún Freud alguna actualidad? Este volumen parte de la premisa de que así es. Al enfocar la obra de Freud no sólo desde una perspectiva filosófica, sino también histórica, psicoanalítica, antropológica y sociológica, los autores ofrecen nuevas vías de análisis del pensamiento y los actos humanos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is a study of Hume and Spinoza and the relationship of philosophical theories of the emotions to psychological theories of therapy. Hume and Spinoza are the best and most systematic representatives of two opposing traditions of argument about the relation of thought and feeling in the emotions...read more