Emotions in History – Lost and Found
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: Central European University Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
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pp. v-vi
List of Illustrations
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pp. vii-viii
Preface and acknowledgments
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pp. 1-2
When Gábor Klaniczay invited me to give the Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture in 2009, I had four reasons to immediately accept the invitation. First, I felt honoured to be connected to Natalie, whom I admire so much for many things that are mentioned in this book, and for more that...
The historical economy of emotions: Introduction
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pp. 3-18
On September 16, 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy let off steam. Hitting back at the European Commissioner for Justice and Fundamental Rights who had sharply reprimanded the French government for the campaigns against illegal Roma camps, he did not care to hold back his anger. “I am the...
Chapter 1. Losing emotions
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pp. 19-86
There are many ways in which emotions get lost. An individual can lose them as a direct result of a traumatic incident. Some of us might know someone who has undergone successful brain surgery. The tumour is gone, everybody is happy, except for the patient who can no longer experience...
Chapter 2. Gendering emotions
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pp. 87-148
Emotions, whether lost or retrieved, come in socially specifi c and culturally diverse forms. Honour, for instance, was an emotional disposition deeply ingrained in nineteenth-century European society, and yet, it took multiple shapes and translated into different practices. The latter varied according to social class, age, religion, and national belonging...
Chapter 3. Finding emotions
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pp. 149-204
When refl ecting on gender and emotions, fi nally and inevitably, empathy comes into mind. Women, as nineteenth and early twentieth-century authors seemed to believe, were particularly well equipped to feel what others felt. Their nature, the argument went, allowed them to be...
Emotions lost and found: Conclusions and perspectives
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pp. 205-220
We have come to the end of our intellectual journey. It took us from the French president’s anger to global empathy; it fathomed women’s rage and allowed us to question men’s cold blood; it introduced us to honour cultures and examined practices of social shaming. With regard to time...
Notes
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pp. 221-252
Index of names
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pp. 253-255
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9786155225031
Print-ISBN-13: 9786155053344
Page Count: 262
Illustrations: 11 B&W illustrations
Publication Year: 2011
Series Title: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Ser
