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almafu_9959238517702883
Format:
1 online resource (439 p.)
ISBN:
0-226-12651-X
Content:
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. Emotion 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 emotion 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.
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Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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NTRODUCTION. Emotional Returns --
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1. Humanists and the Experimental Study of Emotion --
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2. "Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula": Mirror-Neuron Theory and Emotional Empathy --
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3. Emotion Science and the Heart of a Two-Cultures Problem --
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4. What Is an Excitement? --
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5. The Science of Pain and Pleasure in the Shadow of the Holocaust --
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6. Oncomotions: Experience and Debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945 --
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7. The Concept of Panic: Military Psychiatry and Emotional Preparation for Nuclear War in Postwar West Germany --
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8. Preventing the Inevitable: John Appel and the Problem of Psychiatric Casualties in the US Army during World War II --
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9. Feeling for the Protest Faster: How the Self-Starving Body Influences Social Movements and Global Medical Ethics --
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10. Across Different Cultures? Emotions in Science during the Early Twentieth Century --
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11. Decolonizing Emotions: The Management of Feeling in the New World Order --
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12. Passions, Preferences, and Animal Spirits: How Does Homo Oeconomicus Cope with Emotions? --
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13. The Transatlantic Element in the Sociology of Emotions --
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14. Feminist Theories and the Science of Emotion --
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15. Affect, Trauma, and Daily Life: Transatlantic Legal and Medical Responses to Bullying and Intimidation --
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Coda: Erasures; Writing History about Holocaust Trauma --
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Contributors --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-12648-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-12634-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226126517
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