Defining Emotions: Concepts and Debates over Three Centuries / Ute Frevert -- Topographies of Emotion / Monique Scheer -- Showing Emotions, Reading Emotions / Anne Schmidt -- The 'Origin' of Emotions: Sensitive Humans, Sensitive Animals / Pascal Eitler -- Healing Emotions / Bettina Hitzer -- Age(ing) with Feeling / Nina Verheyen -- Felt Distances / Benno Gammerl -- Social Emotions / Christian Bailey -- Civility and Barbarism: Emotions as Criteria of Difference / Margrit Pernau -- Emotional Knowledge: Modern Developments / Ute Frevert
Summary
Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign to them? 'Emotional Lexicons' is a cultural history of terms of emotion found in German, French, and English language encyclopaedias since the late 17th century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 19, 2014)
