Secret History of Emotion From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science

Name: Secret History of Emotion From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science
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ISBN: 9780226309804

ISBN-10: 0226309800

ISBN-13: 9780226309804

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel M. Gross

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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 Emotionoffers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today. nbsp; 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. In Gross’s historical analysis of…

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Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Daniel M. Grossis associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author ofThe Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotles "Rhetoric" to Modern Brain Science.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: A New Rhetoric of Passions



Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity



Apathy in the Shadow Economy of Emotion



Virtues of Passivity in the English Civil War



The Politics of Pride in David Hume and David Simple



Thinking and Feeling without a Brain: William Perfect and Adam Smith's Compassion


Index