The secret history of emotion: from Aristotle's Rhetoric to modern brain science
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Main Author: Gross, Daniel M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press 2006
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Rhetoric of Passions; 1 Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity; 2 Apathy in the Shadow Economy of Emotion; 3 Virtues of Passivity in the English Civil War; 4 The Politics of Pride in David Hume and David Simple; 5 Thinking and Feeling without a Brain: William Perfect and Adam Smith's Compassion; Index
Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today. Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectu
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 194 pages)
ISBN:0226309932
9780226309934

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