The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life

'A mature, wise, and provocative work...The main lines of argument - that the emotions are ways we constitute our lives with meaning; that they are in some important sense things we do rather than things that merely happen to us; that emotions have their own sort of rationality and logic and are subject to evaluation and criticism as such; that emotions are, in some important sense, evaluative judgments - remain an important, credible contemporary view...Solomon is clear, clever, and deep (also often funny)' - Owen Flanagan, Duke University.