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title	:	On the Emotions Ernst Cassirer Lectures ; 1991
author	:	Wollheim, Richard.
publisher	:	Yale University Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780300079746
ebook isbn13	:	9780585366791
language	:	English
subject	Emotions.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	BF531.W65 1999eb
ddc	:	152.4
subject	:	Emotions.

Page i On the Emotions The Ernst Cassirer Lectures, 1991

Page ii It is my purpose to explain, not the meanings of words, but the nature of things, and to explain them in such words whose meanings, according to current use, are not debauched by the meaning which I wish to attach to them. Spinoza, Ethics, Book III, Definition XX

Page iii On the Emotions Richard Wollheim

Page iv Copyright 1999 by Richard Wollheim All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Set in Linotron Bembo by Best-set Typesetter Ltd, Hong Kong Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-65332 ISBN: 0-300-07974-5 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow

Page v TO MY FRIENDS WHO DIED 1991-1997

Page vii Contents Preface ix Introduction xi Lecture One The Originating Condition 1 Lecture Two As the Emotion Forms 69 Lecture Three On the So-Called Moral Emotions 148 Notes to the Text 225 Index 265

Page ix Preface This book originated in the Ernst Cassirer lectures delivered in the Philosophy Department at Yale University, in the autumn of 1991. I am deeply grateful to the department, and particularly to Jonathan Lear, for the invitation, and for the hospitality that I received. My philosophical interest in the emotions as such dates from an invitation to deliver a paper to a conference at the University of Michigan on the Emotions in Life and Art, which was organized in 1988 by another friend, to whom I am similarly grateful, Kendall Walton. At the time of the Michigan conference, I delivered, in preparation for it, a three-week seminar on the Emotions at Guelph University. I am grateful to the Guelph Philosophy Department for their invitation to be the Winegrad Professor. This book is a totally revised, rewritten, and, I need hardly say, massively enlarged, version of the lectures that were delivered in New Haven. Nevertheless most of the views, and the manner of presentation, which was designed more to jog the mind than to convince a more obdurate opposition, are the same. For this reason, I have wanted to call the divisions into which it falls lectures. Readers of this book are bound to feel relief that they never had to listen to my views for the hours that this division suggests. In the intervening years since 1991, I have benefitted from the opinions and criticisms of others at universities in North America and England, and at psychoanalytic institutes in London, New Haven, and San Francisco, where I have been invited to give talks. I have been extremely fortunate to be able to try out my ideas in a number of seminars offered at the University of California Berkeley, in wonderful circumstances, to wonderful students. I am deeply grateful to the Philosophy Department at Berkeley, and to the university, for a series of annual invitations to teach there, renewed for now over fourteen years.

Page x Amongst my students, I owe most to Steve Arkonovitch and Ariela Lazar, both of whom have read many pages of what I have written, and given me searching, but sympathetic, comments, which have saved me from errors, and allowed me a better understanding of my own views; amongst my colleagues, to Marcia Cavell, Jim Hopkins, Stephen Neale, Sam Scheffler, Barry Stroud, David Wiggins, and Bernard Williams, for criticisms and encouragement over the years; and amongst psychoanalysts, to two old friends, Betty Joseph and Hanna Segal, and to John Steiner, who replied to a talk that I gave at the Freud Museum. I recall illuminating conversations with Rogers Albritton, Malcolm Budd, Myles Burnyeat, David Copp, John Deigh, Philip Fisher, Andrew Forge, Robert Gordon, David Hills, Jeff King, Herbert Morris, David Pears, John Searle, Kayley Vernallis, and Kendall Walton. I am grateful to various friends whose hospitality I enjoyed while writing this book: Aline and Isaiah Berlin, Susan and Patrick Gardiner, Neiti and Grey Gowrie, George Hellyer and Ira Yaeger, Heike and Kevin O'Hanlon, John Richardson, and Angie Thieriot. I thank my friend Faith Brabenec Hart for her editorial labours and forbearance. Two passages from Lecture III will, by the time this book is published, have appeared elsewhere: one as 'Emotion and the Malformation of Emotion' in

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