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Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy » (1ST)

Authors: Patrick Boyde
ISBN-13: 9780521028554, ISBN-10: 0521028558
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: 1ST

A reading of the Comedy in the context of thirteenth-century psychology and philosophy.

	Preface
Pt. 1	Coming to terms with Aristotle	1
1	The prestige and unity of the Aristotelian corpus	3
2	Movement and change in lifeless bodies	11
3	Self-change: growth and reproduction in plant life	32
4	Self-movement: sensation and locomotion in animal life	44
Pt. 2	The operations of the sensitive soul in man	59
5	Perception of light and colour	61
6	Perception of shape, size, number movement, and stillness	93
7	Imagining and dreaming	119
8	Body-language and the physiology of passion	140
Pt. 3	The operations of the rational soul	171
9	Self-direction: the powers of the mind	173
10	Aspects of human freedom	193
Pt. 4	Combined operations	215
11	Fear	217
12	Anger	245
13	Desire	275
	Notes	302
	Select bibliography	332
	Index of Latin terms	334
	Index of longer quotations	338
	General index	340