This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes and states we think of as emotion. This volume is distinctive in its focus on foundational questions concerning the categorization and conceptualization of emotion. It is also unique in its degree of collaboration among scholars working in different disciplines and in a vast range of ancient traditions. This book aims to build on the resources of these traditions to make an intervention in how we might think about emotions today.

Represents collaboration among leading scholars of emotions working in different classical traditions Examines how emotions were conceptualised in varied linguistic, cultural, and textual traditions Challenges modern categories and conceptions of emotions still widely taken as timeless and of universal validity

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Curie Virág is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. She works in the history of ethics, epistemology, moral psychology and philosophical anthropology in classical China and across traditions, with a particular focus on emotions. David Konstan was a Professor of Classics at New York University and Emeritus Professor at Brown University, USA. His research focused on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. 

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Concept of Emotion from Plato to Cicero.- Chapter 3. Pali Buddhist Conceptions of Feeling.- Chapter 4. Out of Aesthetics: Seeing the Emotions in Sanskrit Rasa Theory.- Chapter 5. Emotions as Webs of Connectivity in Early China.- Chapter 6. Doing and Sensing Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: A Philological Approach.- Chapter 7. Hieroglyphic Embodiments and Assemblages of Emotion in Ancient Egypt: A Neurolinguistic Approach.- Chapter 8. Sumerian Terms of Emotions in Light of Current Theories.- Chapter 9. A Sketch of Emotions in Hittite Texts 189.- Chapter 10. Beneath the Surface: Masking and Feigning in Latin
Literature.- Chapter 11. Managing Emotions and Medieval Islamic Piety.-Chapter 12. Mono No Aware in the Eleventh-Century Japanese Literary Classic The Tale of Genji.- Chapter 13. Afterword: How Many Ages Hence.