Books by Robert C. (Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy Solomon

Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. It requires not only emotional sensitivity but an understanding of the emotions. This book presents a defence of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of a long history of abuse in philosophy, social thought, art, and literary criticism.

This is an accessible introduction to the often difficult authors of modern Continental European philosophy from the Enlightenment onward. A central theme is the development of theories of the Self - the transcendental self, human nature, the human acting through will, and God himself.