Emotions in History - Lost and Found.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- The historical economy of emotions:Introduction Brussels, 2010: Emotional politics and the politics of emotion - The Economy of emotions: How it works and why it matters - The modern and the pre-modern -- Chapter 1. Losing emotions Losing emotions in trauma - Losing emotions in psychology and historiography - Losing emotions in the civilising process - Losing emotions in words: acedia and melancholia -Losing the mot-force: honour - Honour as anemotional disposition: internal/external - Honourpractices: The duel - The emotional powe rof duelling - Shaming the coward - Equality and group cohesion - Crimes of honour, nowand then - Chastity and family honour - Rape,sex, and national honour - The de -- Chapter 2. Gendering emotions Rage and insult - Power and self-control -Women's strength, women's weakness - Modernity and the natural order - Emotional topographies of gender - Sensibility - Romantic families, passionate politics - Intense emotionsversus creative minds - Schools of emotions: the media - Self-help literature - More schooling:armies, peer groups, politics - Collective emotions and charismatic leadership - New emotional profiles and social change - Angry young men, angry young wo -- Chapter 3. Finding emotions Empathy and compassion - Social emotions in18th-century moral philosophy - Self-love and sympathy - Suffering and pity - Fraternité and the French Revolution - Human rights - Abolitionism and the change in sensibility - Sympathy,lexical - Schopenhauer's Nächstenliebe versus Nietzsche's Fernsten-Liebe - Compassion and its shortcomings - Counter-forces and blockades - Suffering, pity and the education of feelings - Modern dilemmas - Humanitarianism and its crises -- Emotions lost and found: Conclusions and perspectives.

Notes -- Index of names -- back cover.

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