Emotion and reason : mind, brain, and the social domains of work and love / Warren D. TenHouten

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-280) and index

PART I The emotions and social relations.--1 The primary, secondary, and tertiary emotions.--2 The four fundamental problems of social life.--PART II The emotions of formal society.--3 Anger, anger management, and contested place in the social world.--4. Anticipation and the exploration and nature and social world.--5 Reactive and instrumental aggression and aggressiveness.--PART III The emotions of rationality in agonic society.--6 Cognitive, conative, and neurobiological foundations of Weberian, instrumental rationality.--7 Rationality, emotions, character structure, and the brain.--8 The ten emotions of rationality in agonic society.--Part IV. The Emotions of Rationality in Hedonic Community.-- 9 Acceptance, Rejection, and the Self.-- 10 Joy and Happiness: Virtue and the Sum of All Desires.--11 From Passion to Commitment and Beyond: Climbing the Ladder of Love.--12. Falling off the Ladder: Seven Emotions of Troubled Intimacy.

Although much academic work has been done on the areas of mind, brain, and society, a theoretical synthesis of the three levels of analysis - the biological, the mental, and the social - has not until now been put forward. In Emotion and Reason, Warren TenHouten presents a truly comprehensive classification of the emotions. The book analyzes 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.