Seventeenth-century Theories of Emotion and Their Contemporary Relevance
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a renewed interest in the theory of emotions both in philosophy and psychology. Work in this area has relied heavily on certain seventeenth-century philosophical theories of emotion (at the time variously termed theories of “passion”, “affect”, or even “action”). I shall start this paper by giving a very brief overview of the place of emotion theory in seventeenth-century art and thought. This will be followed by a sketch of two seventeenth-century theories of emotion, those of Descartes and Spinoza. I shall identify certain ways in which these theories have influenced or could (and
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