The History of Emotions

The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study, moving beyond the traditional debate between social constructivist and universalist theories of emotion.

Plamper takes readers on a whirlwind tour of emotion studies from Aristotle to mirror neurons and across the disciplines ... History students interested in joining the gold rush but unsure of where to dig or which pioneers to follow will find a mine of information here (not least in a useful glossary and bibliography that has been updated from the original German edition). This book will also challenge skeptical historians wondrous at what the fuss is all about, and it will tickle the curiosity of the general reader befuddled by how history could be such (dead serious) fun.

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Jan Plamper obtained a BA from Brandeis University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, after which he taught at the University of Tübingen and from 2008 to 2012 was a Dilthey Fellow at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, in Berlin. He is co-editor, with Benjamin Lazier, of Fear: Across the Disciplines (2012); and co-editor, with Marc Elie and Schamma Schahadat, of Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul'turnoi istorii emotsii [In the Realm of Russian Feelings: Approaches to the Cultural History of Emotions] (2010). He has also recently authored The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (2012).

Inhalt

• History and Emotions: An Introduction

• What Is Emotion?

• Who Has Emotion?

• Where Is Emotion?

• Do Emotions Have a History?

• What Sources Might We Use in Writing the History of Emotions?

• One: The History of the History of Emotions

• Lucien Febvre and the History of Emotions

• The History of Emotions Prior to Febvre

• The History of Emotions in the Time of Febvre and After

• The History of Emotions and 9/11

• Barbara H. Rosenwein and Emotional Communities

• Two: Social Constructivism: Anthropology

• The Varieties of Emotions

• Emotions in Travel Writings and Early Anthropology

• Emotions in the Anthropological Classics

• Early Anthropology of Emotions in the 1970s

• The Linguistic Turn and Social Constructivism

• Social Constructivism alongside Rosaldo, Abu-Lughod, and Lutz

• The Social Constructivist Anthropology of Emotions: Some Preliminary Conclusions

• The 1990s I: The Anthropology of Emotions after Social Constructivism

• The 1990s II: The Supersession of the Social Constructivism-Universalism Duality?

• Recent Universalist Anthropology of Emotions

• Three: Universalism: Life Sciences

• Paul Ekman and Basic Emotions

• Road Map for Chapter Three

• Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), or, How One Book Became a Battlefield between Social Constructivists and Universalists

• The Beginnings of Psychological Research into Emotions, or, How Feelings, Passions, and Changes of Mood Migrated from Theology to Psychology and in the Process Became 'Emotions'

• Emotion Laboratories and Laboratory Emotions, or, on the Birth of Psychological Conceptions of Emotion from the Experimental Spirit

• How Ideas of Social Order also Ordered the Interior of the Brain

• Research into the Emotional Response of the Brain

• Freud's Missing Theory of Feeling

• The Boom in the Psychology of Emotion from the 1960s Onwards

• A Synthetic Cognitive-Physiological Theory of Emotion: The Schachter-Singer Model

• Evaluating Emotions: Cognitive Psychology and Appraisal Models

• The Neurosciences, fMRI Scanning and Other Imaging Procedures

• Joseph LeDoux and the Two Roads to Fear

• Antonio R. Damasio and the Somatic Marker Hypothesis

• Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, Marco Iacoboni, Mirror Neurons, and Social Emotions

• On the Shoulders of Dwarves, or, The Neurosciences as a 'Trojan Horse' for the Human and Social Sciences

• Affectarians of All Lands, Unite! The Neurosciences as Represented by Hardt, Negri, and Co.

• Borrowings from the Neurosciences: An Interim Balance

• Beyond all Divides: The Critical Neurosciences and Genuine Possibilities for Co-Operation

• Four: Perspectives in the History of Emotions

• The Navigation of Feeling: William M. Reddy's Attempt to Move beyond Social Constructivism and Universalism

• Emotional Practices

• Neurohistory

• Perspectives in the History of Emotion

• Prospects

• Conclusion