Emotions in history : lost and found
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Emotions in history : lost and found
(The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series)
Central European University Press, 2011
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Emotions, as argued in this book, are contingent on historical variables. Even though men and women may have always felt and shown emotions, those have differed in style, object, intensity, and valence. While certain emotions got lost in history, other ones rose to prominence, depending on political incentives, social challenges, and cultural choices. In European societies, honour and shame practices have fundamentally changed over the course of modernity, gradually losing their grip on people's self -perception and attitude. At the same time, compassion and empathy have become crucial components of the modern "emotional self".Although they have motivated a plethora of humanitarian activities and institutions, they have nevertheless been hampered by severe obstacles and seen periods of dramatic decline.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments The Historical economy of emotions: Introduction Brussels, 2010: Emotional politics and the politics of emotion - The Economy of emotions: How it works and why it matters - The modern and the pre-modern Chapter 1. Losing emotions Losing emotions in trauma - Losing emotions in psychology and historiography - Losing emotions in the civilising process - Losing emotions in words: acedia and melancholia - Losing the mot-force: honour - Honour as an emotional disposition: internal/external - Honour practices: The duel - The emotional power of duelling - Shaming the coward - Equality and group cohesion - Crimes of honour, now and then - Chastity and family honour - Rape, sex, and national honour - The decline of honour, or its return? Chapter 2. Gendering emotions Rage and insult - Power and self-control - Women's strength, women's weakness - Modernity and the natural order - Emotional topographies of gender - Sensibility - Romantic families, passionate politics - Intense emotions versus creative minds - Schools of emotions: the media - Self-help literature - More schooling: armies, peer groups, politics - Collective emotions and charismatic leadership - New emotional profiles and social change - Angry young men, angry young women - Winds of change Chapter 3. Finding emotions Empathy and compassion - Social emotions in 18th-century moral philosophy - Self-love and sympathy - Suffering and pity - Fraternite and the French Revolution - Human rights - Abolitionism and the change in sensibility - Sympathy, lexical - Schopenhauer's Nachstenliebe versus Nietzsche's Fernsten-Liebe - Compassion and its shortcomings - Counter-forces and blockades - Suffering, pity and the education of feelings - Modern dilemmas - Humanitarianism and its crises Emotions lost and found: Conclusions and Perspectives Index
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