In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Miller's protagonist Willy Loman experiences such
profound shame from failing to achieve the American dream that he commits suicide by the�…

Peter Goldie opens the path to a deeper understanding of our emotional lives through a
lucid philosophical exploration of this surprisingly neglected topic. He illuminates the�…

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�…

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the
character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire�…

The modern world is forcing us to understand emotion in order to cope with new problems
such as road rage and epidemic levels of depression, as well as age-old problems such as�…

Tracing the story of anger from the Buddha to Twitter, Rosenwein provides a much-needed
account of our changing and contradictory understandings of this emotion All of us think we�…

Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject. This desire is directed towards
the real, which is defined as the generic core of the linguistic order. As a result of the focus�…

The present volume is, we believe, the first-ever edited volume devoted to the emotion of
disgust. In this chapter, we (a) address why disgust was almost completely ignored until�…

The 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�…

Hatred is often considered the opposite of love, but in many ways is much more complicated.
It also may be considered one of the dominant emotions of our time, as individuals, groups�…