Self and emotional life : philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience /

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Main Authors: Johnston, Adrian, 1974
Group Author: Malabou, Catherine
Published: Columbia University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
Subjects:
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Carrier Form: xxi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-257) and index.
ISBN: 9780231158305 (cloth) :
0231158300 (cloth)
9780231158312 (paperback)
0231158319 (paperback)
Index Number: BF531
CLC: B017.9
Call Number: B017.9/J721
Contents: Preface: From nonfeeling to misfeeling--affects between trauma and the unconscious -- Introduction: From the passionate soul to the emotional brain -- What does "of" mean in the Descartes's expression, "The passions of the soul"? -- A "self-touching you": Derrida and Descartes -- The Neural self: Damasio meets Descartes -- Affects are always affects of essence: book 3 of Spinoza's Ethics -- The face and the close-up: Deleuze's Spinozist approach to Descartes -- Damasio as a reader of Spinoza -- On neural plasticity, trauma, and the loss of affects -- Conclusion ...