EMOTION VERSUS REASON:

THE EMOTIONS’ (IR)RATIONALITY IN LAVOURA ARCAICA

Authors

  • Eugênia Ribeiro Teles Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v11i5.55788

Keywords:

Philosophy of emotion, Emotion, Reason, Lavoura Arcaica

Abstract

In Lavoura Arcaica, Raduan Nassar writes a story pervaded of rebel, dense and coarse emotions that shake the structures of rationality. In several parts, it can be seen an allusion to the clash between emotion and reason. From this point, the aim of this paper is to argue that although emotions are apparently irrational, they can present their own rationality, as they are correct and justified in some situations found in the novel. For this purpose, some theories developed in the field of philosophy of emotions are the hermeneutic apparatus.

 

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Published

2020-12-13

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 5 (2020)

Section

Papers

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