The Logic of Affect

Paul Redding

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

The Logic of Affect

Paul Redding

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738920

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Most attempts to trace the roots of current scientific approaches to the mind have ignored the contributions of post-Kantian German idealism. Paul Redding here shows the relevance of this philosophical tradition to an understanding of the mind and its embodiment as well as the relation of feeling to cognition.

Redding observes how Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel struggled with the problem of reconciling Kant's normative approach to experience and thought with the naturalistic stance of the emerging medical sciences. A century later William James, Freud, and Jung also addressed the interconnection of thought and feeling, reaching views similar to those of the post-Kantian idealists. In particular, Redding argues, the idealists conceived of a'logic of affect'that reemerged in Freud's concept of the primary process and in modern evolutionary ideas of subcortical processing.

This innovative book demonstrates how new insights can be brought to the study of mentality and consciousness by considering previously overlooked interpretations. Redding shows that these early theorists of the unconscious can bring scholars to a better appreciation not only of classical thinkers like James and Freud but also of contemporary debates about the mind and emotions.

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PAUL REDDING is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and the author of Hegel's Hermeneutics, also from Cornell.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: A Logic for the Reasons of the Heart? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Affect in Twentieth-Century Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. James's Theory of the Emotions in the Context of His Conception of the Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Freud, Affect, and the Logic of the Unconscious Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
4. Kant, Mind, and Self-Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. The Unsayable Self-Feeling Body: Feeling, Representation, and Reality in Fichte' s Transcendental Idealism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6. The Feeling and Representing Organism: Schelling, Transcendental Idealism, and Naturphilosophie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
7. Hegel, Affect, and Cognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8. The Relevance of Idealist Psychology in a Darwinian World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
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- Main content: 224
Keywords: Philosophy; Cultural Studies

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Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501738920