“Le cœur a ses raisons….”: Lawrence, Logic and the Life of Feeling

The “logic of the emotions” is one of those familiar expressions which constantly escape closer inspection. Yet its meaning to different speakers and listeners can be significantly varied. It may make a profoundly important, if problematic, claim about a positive relation between the realms of feel...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Dans:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Auteur principal: Bell, Michael
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Études Lawrenciennes 2014
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Description
Résumé:The “logic of the emotions” is one of those familiar expressions which constantly escape closer inspection. Yet its meaning to different speakers and listeners can be significantly varied. It may make a profoundly important, if problematic, claim about a positive relation between the realms of feeling and rationality. Or it may be denying any such relation in order to insist on a contrary order of authority exercised by the emotions. In other words it may be understood with varying degrees o...