The secret history of emotion : from Aristotle's Rhetoric to modern brain science / Daniel M. Gross.

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Gross, Daniel M, 1965-

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TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226309934
0226309932
0226309797
9780226309798

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret history of emotion.DDC classification:

152.409 22

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BF531 .G76 2006eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena.

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Includes bibliographical references and 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 intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena.

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