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Emotional Bodies:

The Historical Performativity of Emotions
  • ISBN-13: 9780252084713
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • Edited by Dolores Martin-Moruno, Edited by Beatriz Pichel
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2020
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further studying the materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions' performative nature.
 
Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups - patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies - perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section of social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies.
This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome.--Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice
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