Writing the History of Emotions Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics
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Biografisk notat
Ute Frevert is President of the Max Weber Foundation, Germany, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, where she leads the Center for the History of Emotions. She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Ute Frevert has published extensively on the history of emotions in both English and German.Frevert, perhaps the foremost authority in this area, has written the most accessible and helpful book for those curious about the history of emotions … While serving as a superb introduction to readers unfamiliar with the history of emotions, this book will also be of value to researchers interested in the historiography and methodological practices in this emerging, vital area.
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Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home.
Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury’s successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history.
Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to illustrate the different emotional meanings one particular material object has had throughout history. This book sheds light on how emotions have been used, instrumentalised and manipulated both to propel and suspend democratic politics. In doing so, it opens a rich new avenue of research for the history of emotions.
Introduction
1. Affects, Passions and Emotions: Historical Experiences and Historiographical Approaches
Emotional Concepts and Practices
2. Trust Talk and Trust Work
3. Practising Honour: Social, Gender and Legal Perspectives
4. Honour and Shame in International Relations
5. Shame and Shaming in Modern History
6. Historicizing Empathy
Emotional Economies of Capitalism
7. Capitalist Cold? Bringing Emotions Back In
8. How Does Homo Oeconomicus Cope with Emotions?
9. Greed and Avarice: Feelings about Money
10. Hans in Luck, or the Emotional Economy of Happiness in the Modern Age
11. Emotions and Material Culture: Say It with Flowers
Politics of Emotion
12. Emotional Politics in Europe’s Long Nineteenth Century
13. Love and Hate, Faith and Despair under National Socialism
14. Emotional Styles and Political Cultures in East and West Germany
Bibliography
Index
The Writing History series publishes accessible overviews of particular fields in history, focusing on the practical application of theory in historical writing. Books in the series succinctly explain central concepts to demonstrate the ways in which they have informed effective historical writing. They analyse key historical texts and their producers within their institutional arrangement, and as part of a wider social discourse. The series' holistic approach means students benefit from an enhanced understanding of how to negotiate the contours of successful historical writing.
Series editors: Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Heiko Feldner (Cardiff University, UK) and Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University, UK)