Science and emotions after 1945 : a transatlantic perspective / edited by Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biess, Frank, 1966- editor.

Gross, Daniel M., 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Psychological aspects.

Emotions.

Affective neuroscience--History--20th century.

Affective neuroscience.

Psychology--Germany--History--20th century.

Psychology.

Psychology--United States--History--20th century.

History.

United States.

Germany.

Physical Description:

v, 432 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Summary:

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. Emotions remained on the scene of scientific and popular study but largely at the fringes as a behavioral reflex, or as a concern of the private sphere. So why, by the 1960s, had the study of emotions returned to the forefront of academic investigation? In Science and Emotions after 1945, Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross chronicle the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent neuroscientific study of emotions did not initiate-but instead consolidated-the emotional turn by clearing the ground for multidisciplinary work on the emotions. Science and Emotions after 1945 tells the story of this shift by looking closely at scientific disciplines in which the study of emotions has featured prominently, including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, and the social sciences, viewed in each case from a humanities perspective. Book jacket.

Contents:

Humanists and the experimental study of emotion / William M. Reddy

"Both of us disgusted in my insula" : mirror neuron theory and emotional empathy / Ruth Leys

Emotion science and the heart of a two-cultures problem / Daniel M. Gross and Stephanie Preston

What is an excitement? / Otniel E. Dror

The science of pain and pleasure in the shadow of the Holocaust / Cathy Gere

Oncomotions : experience and debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945 / Bettina Hitzer

The concept of panic : military psychiatry and emotional preparation for nuclear war in postwar West Germany / Frank Biess

Preventing the inevitable : military psychiatry and the origins of limited tours of duty in the US Army during World War II / Rebecca Jo Plant

Feeling for the protest faster : how the self-starving body influences social movements and global medical ethics / Nayan B. Shah

Across different cultures' emotions in science during the early twentieth century / Uffa Jensen

Decolonizing emotion : the management of feeling in the new world order / Jordanna Bailkin

Passions, preferences, and animal spirits : how does homo oeconomicus cope with emotions? / Ute Frevert

The transatlantic element in the sociology of emotions / Helena Flam

Feminist theories and the science of emotion / Catherine Lutz

Affect, trauma, and daily life : transatlantic legal and medical responses to bullying and intimidation / Roddey Reid

Coda, on historiography erasures : writing history about Holocaust trauma / Carolyn J. Dean

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226126340

022612634X

9780226126487

022612648X

OCLC:

856879216