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Like geological upheavals in a landscape emotions mark our lives as uneven, uncertain & prone to reversals, discontinuities, bridges burned others begun. Are emotions simply animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they, rather, suffused with intelligence—the-babe-is-wise style?—and with discernment and forming thus a source of awareness & understanding? The latter you think? Nussbaum is inclined to that view & explores the structure of a wide range of emotions, their cultural sources, histories in childhood & their less predictable operation in our lives. The book is highly praised. |
