Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The nature of the passions -- 1 Explaining the passions: passions, desires, and the explanation of action -- 2 Rationalizing the passions: Spinoza on reason and the passions -- Part II The symbolism of the passions -- 3 Reading the passions: the Fall, the passions, and dominion over nature -- 4 Painting the passions: the Passions de l'Âme as a basis for pictorial expression -- Part III The physiology of the passions -- 5 Controlling the passions: passion, memory, and the moral physiology of self in seventeenth-century neurophilosophy -- 6 Restraining the passions: hydropneumatics and hierarchy in the philosophy of Thomas Willis -- Index.

This book provides a valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. The contributors show that fundamental questions about the nature of wisdom, goodness and beauty were understood in terms of the contrast between reason and passions in this era. Those with an interest in philosophy , the history of medicene, and women's studies will find this collection a fascinating read.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.