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Emotion and Imagination

ISBN: 9780745649580 | 0745649580
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 6/24/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two. In his engaging and highly original new book, Adam Morton shows that all emotions require some form of imagination and goes on to fully explore the link between these two important concepts both within philosophy and in everyday life. We may take it for granted that complex emotions, such as hope and resentment, require a rich thinking and an engagement with the imagination, but Mort... MORE
  • CONTENTS
  • PART I The range of emotions
  • Refined emotions
  • Imagining in emotion
  • Seeing as
  • Emotions and thinking
  • Keeping mood and emotion distinct
  • Pressure
  • Categories of emotion

  • PART II Imagining vile emotions
  • Imagining vile emotions
  • Imagining minds: emotions and perspectives
  • Imagining a point of view
  • Misimagination
  • Imagining fictional characters: fiction and philosophy
  • Invisible everyday failures
    • ... MORE

  • PART III Memotions
  • The threat of irrelevance
  • Retracting emotions
  • Emotions with multiple points of view: never trust someone
  • who doesn't laugh -- or someone who laughs too much
  • The variety of moral emotions
  • Emotional learning
  • Smugness

  • PART IV Families of emotions
  • The ideas and the questions
  • Shame, regret, embarrassment, remorse
  • Shame-like versus regret-like
  • Ghosts
  • Looking backward and looking inward
  • Gaps in the pattern: shame versus guilt
  • Two kinds of pride
  • The smug family
  • Dark humour, radical possibilities
  • Shaping our emotions
  • A virtue of imagination

  • Notes
  • References
Adam Morton is visiting emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia.


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