The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future
This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on...
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description | This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a convergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important observations about the biocultural status of human beings. While the article stops short of exhorting historians to become competent neuroscientists themselves, it does demand that historians of emotions take note of the implications of social neuroscientific research in particular, with a view to capturing the potential of the emotions to unlock the history of experience, and with a mind to unlocking the political importance of work in this area, namely, the shifting ground of what it means —how it feels— to be human. |
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spelling | doaj.art-96f3fac8d8714dada9b916f770a96b622022-12-22T01:14:22ZengUniversidad de los AndesRevista de Estudios Sociales0123-885X1900-51802017-10-0162101510.7440/res62.2017.02The History of Emotions: Past, Present, FutureRob Boddice0Freie Universität Berlin, AlemaniaThis article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a convergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important observations about the biocultural status of human beings. While the article stops short of exhorting historians to become competent neuroscientists themselves, it does demand that historians of emotions take note of the implications of social neuroscientific research in particular, with a view to capturing the potential of the emotions to unlock the history of experience, and with a mind to unlocking the political importance of work in this area, namely, the shifting ground of what it means —how it feels— to be human.http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/res62.2017.02Author: history of emotionsneuroscienceneurohistorybiocultureexperience |
spellingShingle | Rob Boddice The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future Revista de Estudios Sociales Author: history of emotions neuroscience neurohistory bioculture experience |
title | The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future |
title_full | The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future |
title_fullStr | The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future |
title_full_unstemmed | The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future |
title_short | The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future |
title_sort | history of emotions past present future |
topic | Author: history of emotions neuroscience neurohistory bioculture experience |
url | http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/res62.2017.02 |
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