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Master Passions Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture

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ISBN-10: 0262134055

ISBN-13: 9780262134057

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mihnea C. Moldoveanu, Nitin Nohria

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At the heart of human experience lies anxiety caused by the realisation that the world is unknown. Out of this anxiety arise the master passions of ambition and envy. The authors offer examples from their own lives as they expose their power.
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Book details

List price: $7.75
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Preface
Prelude: Shadows of the Master Passions
An Orwellian Abduction: The Rationalization of the Passions
Anxiety: The Primeval Broth
Ambition as Desire and the Will to Power
Envy and Jealousy: The Master Ratchets
Want, Will, Wish, Would: The Predicaments of Desire
A Self against Itself: An Aesthetic of Rage
"The Truth Is Always Incredible": Deception and Self-Deception
The Moral Tyrant
The Rational Causeur: The Subordination of Reason to the Passions
Soliloquies of the Candid Villain: Catharses of the Master Passions
Escape from the Master Passions
Postlude: Explaining How an Explanation Explains in the Social Sciences
References
Index