This award-winning book deals with the ethical aspect of emotions in human decision making in literature. The broadest description of the process of ‘emotional obsession’ can be found in Euripides’ tragedy of Phaedra, but the can be found in the tragedies of Roman philosopher Seneca and modern French poet Jean Racine, as well.

Ma?gorzata Budzowska, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Classical Philology at the University of ?ód?. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient dramas in modern and postmodern literature and theatre as well as on the paradigms of emotions in the ancient philosophy and dramatic literature.

Contents: Emotions – Moral act – Decision making process – Akrasia – Stoics’ ethics – Free will – Practical syllogism – Self-analysis – Aristotle’s psychology – Euripides’ plays – Aspects of shame – Suicide – Gender relations – Theatre of Seneca – Rhetoric of emotions – Jansenism – Ethics of Christianity – Racine’s dramaturgy.