Rethinking emotion : interiority and exteriority in premodern, modern and contemporary thought / edited by Rüdiger Campe and Julia Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campe, Rüdiger, editor.

Weber, Julia, 1975- editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v.15.

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; volume15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Sociological aspects.

Emotions.

Sociology--Germany--History.

Sociology.

Germany--Civilization.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are emotions, where do they originate and how are they brought into being? While from antiquity to early modernity, affects or passions were mostly conceived of as external physiological forces which act upon a passive subject, modern conceptions generally locate emotions within the subject. Drawing on the dichotomy of "interiority / exteriority" as a complex interdependent relationship, they mostly envision emotions as interior processes. Contemporary conceptions of emotion from such different fields as human geography, art history and cognitive sciences recently started to challenge this notion of internal emotions by developing alternative descriptions of externalized emotion. This book reevaluates premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects, passions and emotion by analyzing various historical manifestations of the discourse on emotion. Unlike most previous research, which - especially in the German tradition - often focused exclusively on the rise of the modern (Romantic) interiority without paying attention to the underlying dichotomy of "interiority / exteriority", this study aims to explore the historical preconditions, the internal logic and the possible shortcomings that inform our thinking on emotion.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Rethinking Emotion: Moving beyond Interiority / Campe, Rüdiger / Weber, Julia

I. Modes of Interiorization: Emotion before the Great Dichotomy

From Moving the Soul to Moving into the Soul / Newmark, Catherine

Presenting the Affect The Scene of Pathos in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Its Revision in Descartes's Passions of the Soul / Campe, Rüdiger

The Art of Prayer Conversions of Interiority and Exteriority in Medieval Contemplative Practice / Largier, Niklaus

Contact at a Distance The Topology of Fascination / Weingart, Brigitte

Chardin: Inwardness - Emotion - Communication / Söntgen, Beate

II. Interiority/Exteriority: Thinking and Writing Emotion

"... that until now, the inner world of man has been given ... such unimaginative treatment" Constructions of Interiority around 1800 / Greiner, Bernhard

Inside/Out Mediating Interiority in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Rat Krespel / Weber, Julia

Keller's Cellar Vaults Intrusions of the Real in Gottfried Keller's Realism / Nägele, Rainer

Toward a Genealogy of the Internalized Human Being Nietzsche on the Emotion of Guilt / Cuonz, Daniel

"The Real Horizon" (beyond Emotions) What Proust (Wordsworth, Rousseau, Diderot, and Hegel) Had 'in' Mind / Brodsky, Claudia

III. Thinking beyond Interiority: Reconceptualizing Emotion after the Great Dichotomy

The Role of the Lived-Body in Feeling / Waldenfels, Bernhard

Artificial Emotions Melodramatic Practices of Shared Interiority / Kappelhoff, Hermann

Feelings on Faces From Physiognomics to Neuroscience / Freedberg, David

Emotions and Other Minds / Krueger, Joel

Whereabouts Locating Emotions between Body, Mind, and World / Hufendiek, Rebekka

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110373363

311037336X

9783110259254

3110259257

OCLC:

890070947