Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know

Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know

Eva T. H. Brann
Role: Author
Written by the 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

In Feeling Our Feelings, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on contemporary studies on the brain. Feeling Our Feelings provides a comprehensive look at this pervasive and elusive topic.