The history of emotions
A Very Short Introduction
- ISBN: 9780198818298
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Very Short Introductions
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 18 cm
- Nº Pág.: 143
- Idiomas: Inglés
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history.
List of illustrations
1:The pulse of the past
2:A map of woe
3:From passions to emojis
4:Terror and the pursuit of happiness
5:All the rages
6:Looking for love
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