Document Type
Book
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014348
Abstract
Healing the Reason-Emotion Split draws on research from experimental psychology and neuroscience to dispel the myth that reason should be heralded above emotion.
Arguing that reason and emotion mutually benefit our decision-making abilities, the book explores the idea that understanding this relationship could have long-term advantages for our management of society’s biggest problems. Levine reviews how reason and emotion operated in historical movements such as the Enlightenment, Romanticism and 1960s' counterculture, to conclude that a successful society would restore human connection and foster compassion in economics and politics by equally utilizing reason and emotion.
Integrating discussion on classic and contemporary neurological studies and using allegory, the book lays out the potential for societal change through compassion, and would be of interest to psychologists concerned with social implications of their fields, philosophy students, social activists, and religious leaders.
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
12-28-2020
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Levine, Daniel, "Healing the Reason-Emotion Split Scarecrows, Tin Woodmen, and the Wizard" (2020). Open Initiatives Grant Funded Publications. 20.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_openinitiativespubs/20