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 an emotional disposition: internal/external –
Honour practices: The duel – The emotional power of duelling –
Shaming the coward – Equality and group cohesion – Crimes of
honour, now and then – Chastity and family honour – Rape, sex, and
national honour – The decline of honour, or its return?
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 emotions versus 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 women – Winds of change
Chapter 3. Finding emotions
Empathy and compassion – Social emotions in 18th-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
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.
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