Emotions and temporalities / Margrit Pernau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pernau, Margrit, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses, 2632-1068.

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses, 2632-1068

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Social aspects--History.

Time.

Emotions--Social aspects--History.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both. Time was often imagined as a movement from the past to the future: the past is gone and the future not yet here. Only present-day subjects could establish relations to other times, recovering history as well as imagining and anticipating the future. In a movement paralleling the emphasis on the porous self, constituted by emotions situated not inside but between subjects, this Element argues for a porous present, which is open to the intervention of ghosts coming from the past and from the future. What needs investigating is the flow between times as much as the creation of boundaries between them, which first banishes the ghosts and then denies their existence. Emotions are the most important way through which subjects situate and understand themselves in time.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Emotions and Temporalities

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 The Aim of Emotions and Temporalities

1.2 Time and Temporalities

1.3 Global Emotions, Global Temporalities

1.4 Emotions and Stimmung

2 The Presence of the Past

2.1 Ghosts and Jinns

2.2 Stages of Development

2.3 The Golden Age

2.4 Renaissance

2.5 Reform

2.6 Historia magistra vitae?

3 The Presence of the Future

3.1 A Hauntology of the Future?

3.2 Decline, Degeneration, and Decadence

3.3 Utopia and the New Man

3.4 Revolution

3.5 Reform and Progress

3.6 Development and Planning

4 Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

9781108911634

1108911633

9781108911085

1108911080

9781108918701

1108918700

OCLC:

1269237522