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Thinking about Tears
A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely becausetears are not a simple biological fact but rather hang suspended between natural immediacy, on one side, and cultural artifice, on the other, the analysis of crying came to represent an exemplary testing ground for investigations into the enigmatic relations binding the realm of physiology to thatof psychology. Thinking About Tears explores how the link between tears and sensibility in France's long eighteen...
Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The group volume distinguishes itself by its multidisciplinary, comparative approach and by the network of relationships it weaves between the various European languages and cultures. The study takes shape from its different viewpoints and in its diverse contexts, to chart a detailed historical-conceptual map of the basic role theater played in forging the modern European consciousness. The thematic core of ‘theatermania’ lay in the authentic theatrical passion that manifested itself in different ways from one country to another throughout the 18th century. While the aesthetic, social and political value of theater took a variety of forms, its central feature was the privileged place it ...
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon ...
Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.
Weeping Britannia
There is a persistent myth about the British: that they are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia--the first history of crying in Britain--comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the national character, the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of the nation's past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mysti...
Philosophy and Life Writing
In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing. The contributors interrogate the writings of Teresa of Avila, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, Wilhelm Dilthey, Walter Benjamin, Albert Camus, Bryan Magee, Mikhail Bakhtin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Judith Butler, who range in time from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. As this volume demonstrates, the relationship between philosophy and life writing has become an issue of urgent interdisciplinary concern. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
The Power of Distraction
"Combining philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an imperfection, but as a mental state with political and aesthetic potential"--
Metamorfosi dei Lumi 11
Le onzième volume des Metamorfosi dei Lumi explore le rôle crucial que la période de tournant des Lumières (1780-1820) joue dans la définition du concept moderne d'émotion. La dimension émotionnelle ne peut plus être étudiée dans ces années de manière abstraite, théorique, comme le demandaient les traités des passions du xviie siècle. Au contraire, cette dimension doit être inscrite dans l'expérience concrète. Les émotions naissent et se développent à travers un véritable choc, qui affecte de multiples niveaux d'investigation: à partir des relations interpersonnelles, dans lesquelles naissent et prennent forme les passions, jusqu'à la dimension publique, dans laquelle elles se configurent comme un ciment pour le lien social et un facteur de solidarité.
L'emozione entro i limiti della ragione
Le emozioni condizionano la nostra vita e sono da tempo centrali nella discussione pubblica, oltre che nelle indagini di psicologi, scienziati sociali, politologi e filosofi. Pandemie, migrazioni, guerre e crisi economiche hanno portato la paura al centro della politica; secondo alcuni analisti, la rabbia ha motivato le decisioni degli elettori dalla Brexit all'elezione di Donald Trump. Ma qual è la vera natura delle emozioni? Quanto spazio dovremmo lasciare loro nelle nostre esistenze e nell'arena politica? Il libro ne discute ricostruendo e difendendo le posizioni di una delle più note filosofe delle emozioni contemporanee, Martha Nussbaum. Secondo la visione "cognitivista" della studios...
Weeping Britannia
There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Marge...
