The biology of emotions

Author(s)

• Vincent, Jean Didier

Bibliographic Information

The biology of emotions

Jean-Didier Vincent ; translated by John Hughes

B. Blackwell, 1990

Other Title

Biologie des passions

Note

Translation of: Biologie des passions

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What is love? Can we explain Romeo's love for Juliet? What are desire, pleasure, sadness and the taste for power and domination? In short, how do we make sense of our passions? Going beyond the traditional dichotomy of body and soul, of the reasonable brain and the passionate body, Jean-Didier Vincent proposes a new theory of emotions which aims to harmonize our understanding of humankind. Not that he reduces love to an equation. On the contrary, he aims to show what love and beauty mean in a book whose humour is paralleled by its serious intellectual endeavour.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Fluids: humour, humours
• the internal milieu
• hormones
• the cerebral environment
• the humours of the brain. Part 2 Unmarried machines: the spying fly and the neuron box
• the three brains. Part 3 The animal passions: desire
• pleasure and pain
• hunger and thirst
• love, sex and power
• the smile at the foot of the ladder.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA11098044
• ISBN:
  • 0631160736
• LCCN: 89018610
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 268 p.
• Size: ill. : 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QP401
  • DC20 : 152.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Emotions -- Physiological aspects