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The Secret History of Emotion
Daniel M. Gross
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Description for The Secret History of Emotion
Hardcover. Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Addressing such questions, this title offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 181 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
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, Daniel M. Gross' "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, Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. ... Read more
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, Daniel M. Gross' "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, Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226309798
SKU
V9780226309798
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About Daniel M. Gross
Daniel M. Gross is assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa. He is coeditor of Heidegger and Rhetoric.
Reviews for The Secret History of Emotion
"With The Secret History of Emotion, Daniel Gross has achieved what I thought impossible: he compresses into these pages a compelling history of emotion from Aristotle to today. His argument that there exists a great tradition of understanding the emotions as a psychosocial phenomenon is cogent, coherent, and interesting from beginning to end. This is a remarkable book." - David ... Read more