Emotion and Reason: Mind, Brain, and the Social Domains of Work and Love

Emotion, Reason, and Characteranalyzes six key emotions: anger, acceptance, aggressiveness, love, joy and happiness, and anticipation. It places them in historical context, relates them to situations of work and intimacy, and explains their functioning within an individuated, autonomous character structure. With inclusion of discussion around neuroscience, community, society, psychology and rationality, the book presents the most comprehensive classification of the emotions in existence. It presents an entirely new, neurosociological model of instrumental rationality. It presents an original model of character structure which will have implications for an understanding of narcissism and related pathologies such as gambling addiction. It provides social scientists and affective neuroscientists a general theoretical framework from which many testable hypotheses can be deduced. This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers, with an interest in the sociology of emotions, anthropology of emotions, social psychology, affective neuroscience, and other related disciplines.