The Passions
A Study of Human Nature
$53.59
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2017
Summary
A survey of astonishing breadth and penetration. No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of the emotions without reading this book, twice.
Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL
There is not a slack moment in the whole of this impressive work. With his remarkable facility for making fine distinctions, and his commitment to lucidity, Peter Hacker has subtly characterized those emotions such as pride, shame, envy, jealousy, love or sym…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781119440468 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1119440467 |
| Author: | P.M.S. Hacker |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“It was a joy to receive The Passions, the latest book by Peter Hacker, one of the world’s greatest philosophers. Hacker, 78, has spent a lifetime writing treatises on the mind, language and knowledge, but this time has deployed his wit and insight on a magisterial survey of human emotions, such as sympathy and love … Philosophy is at its most compelling when analytical rigour is fused with personal perspective. When writing about love, civility and empathy, Hacker embodies this truth in spades.”
—Matthew Syed, author of You Are Awesome
P.M.S. Hacker
P.M.S. Hacker is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He is Emeritus Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford University, where he was a Tutorial Fellow in philosophy from 1966 to 2006, and has held visiting chairs in North America and both British Academy and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships. He is the author of nineteen books and over 150 papers, and has written extensively on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and cognitive neuroscience.
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