The Particulars of Rapture : An Aesthetics of the Affects

Preface ix The Arts as a Challenge to Dominant Philosophical Theories of the Affects 1(36) Engaging Affect in Painting and in Poetry 37(35) Interpreting Emotions 72(37) Why Manner Matters: Expression and Conative Value 109(44) Emotions, Values, and the Claims of Reason, Part 1: Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought and the Limits of Normative Theory 153(28) Emotions, Values, and the Claims of Reason, Part 2: Conativity and Its Consequences 181(50) Appendix: Reading Feelings in Literature and Painting 231(24) Notes 255(36) Bibliography 291(6) Index 297