Rough list of topics that interest me:
The interaction between epistemology (reason, understanding, wisdom) and the passions/emotions/affect.
Emotions in aesthetics (including literature, music, visual arts), whether it is the artist trying to capture something or the audience response.
Emotion as a kind of social epistemology that spreads through contagion (see Spinoza, Deleuze & Guattari).
Various works from positive psychology on the emotions.
The humors and temperament.
General history of ideas of the passions and emotions.
Appeals to pathos in rhetoric.
Possibly add "cognitive passions" to this list?
The affective aspects of magic, illusions, myth, fairy tales, etc.
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