264 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything neuro. On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since emotional intelligence emerged as a buzzword of our times. Reflecting on this burgeoning interest in human emotions makes one think of... Read more
List of illustrations, Preface and acknowledgments, The historical economy of emotions, Chapter 1. Losing emotions, Chapter 2. Gendering emotions, Chapter 3. Finding emotions, Emotions lost and found: Conclusions and perspectives, Notes, Index of names
Biography
Ute Frevert has been the Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin since 2008. From 2003 to 2007, she was Professor of History at Yale University.
