Mixed Feelings : : Emotional Phenomena, Rationality and Vagueness / / Marion Ledwig.

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• VerfasserIn: Ledwig, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book opens up a new area of research by not only considering the rationality of such diverse phenomena as ordinary emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, psychotic depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, but also by evaluating the question whether the vagueness of these diverse disorders and emotions poses an obstacle to the rationality of these phenomena. As these emotional phenomena turn out to be vague on many different levels, an explanation is found for the millennia long dispute of which kind of phenomena fall under the emotions and whether such diverse phenomena as hope and alexithymia fall under the emotions. Since vagueness can be most easily identified in mixed feelings, the rationality of mixed feelings will also be dealt with.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Vagueness -- Chapter 2. Emotion Theories -- Chapter 3. The Brain and the Emotions -- Chapter 4. The Rational Functions of the Emotions -- Chapter 5. Hope and Alexithymia -- Chapter 6. Vagueness and Rationality in Mixed Feelings -- Chapter 7. Vagueness and Rationality in Anxiety Disorders -- Chapter 8. Vagueness and Rationality in Moods -- Bibliography -- Backmatter