Solomon, R. (2006). True to our feelings: What our emotions are really telling us. New York: Oxford University Press, 286 pp., ISBN, 0-19-530672-4, $28.00 (hardcover).

Robert Solomon wrote a book on emotions that brings together what is known about emotions from the perspectives of neurology, evolutionary psychology, psychology and philosophy. The result is a much larger and deeper understanding of emotions than is possible when viewed from any one of these disciplines. We are given a rich understanding of specific emotional experiences like anger, fear and happiness. In addition, a comprehensive view of emotions as essential to human nature, the good life and to ...