{"product_id":"not-passions-slave","title":"Not Passion's Slave","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an  idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a \"cognitive\" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as evaluative judgments. The second proposes an \"existentialist\" perspective in which he\n\u003cbr\u003edefends the idea that, as we are responsible for our emotions. Indeed, sometimes it even makes sense to say that we \"choose\" them. While the first claim has gained increasing currency in the\n\u003cbr\u003eliterature, his claim about responsibility for emotions has continued to meet  with considerable resistance and misinterpretation.  The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions \"happen\" to us and are entirely beyond our control.  This volume is also a kind  of intellectual memoir of Solomon¹s own development as a thinker. The essays written in the 1980s elaborate the themes of the\n\u003cbr\u003e\"intentionality\" of emotion and  the claim that emotions are \"judgments\"; in this period, he is also increasingly preoccupied with how emotions vary and are identified in a  variety of cultures. In the 1990's, his\n\u003cbr\u003einterests evolve to consider the social and political role of emotions and theories about emotion. The final section presents his current philosophical position on the seeming \"passivity\" of the passions. Despite his own critical assessment of his earlier work, he continues to argue that, in the final analysis, we are responsible for our emotions and existential quality of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156555297006,"sku":"9780195179781","price":90.75,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/not-passions-slave","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}