Frank Biess is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. His scholarly work on the history of postwar Germany is widely respected and he s currently at work on a history of fear and anxiety in Germany after the War. Daniel Gross is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (UCP, 2006), as well as of a book on Heidegger and Aristotle s Rhetoric. Among current ...
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Frank Biess is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. His scholarly work on the history of postwar Germany is widely respected and he s currently at work on a history of fear and anxiety in Germany after the War. Daniel Gross is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (UCP, 2006), as well as of a book on Heidegger and Aristotle s Rhetoric. Among current trends in interdisciplinary scholarship, the emotions (and history of emotions) continues strong as the hottest area of historical inquiry. There is already an important journal, Emotion Review, which celebrates emotions as now constituting one of the great hubs in the scientific study of the human condition. Biess and Gross have assembled the smartest and most prominent scholars working in the history of science and history of emotions, two fields which this book is the first to conjoin. Known already as the emotional or affective turn, the trend can be explained as the product of a gradual rediscovery of emotion as an analytical category after a period of dormancy. Biological and physiological models of emotion, thanks to the growth of neuroscience, are fueling this rediscovery, and this edited volume is organized according to the different scientific disciplines in which emotions figure in (neuroscience, medicine, psychiatry, social sciences), but in each case bringing a humanities perspective to bear on the concepts, methods, and data. The period 1945 to the present corresponds with the erosion of rationalism as the dominant feature of the social sciences, giving way, once again, to the emotions. The book offers a new way of thinking about the origins of the emotional turn, and offers a much-needed transnational perspective. In order to place the sciences of emotions into larger social and cultural contexts, the contributors draw from the humanities interpretive approachescritical, rhetorical, narratologicalto frame the meanings and histories of emotions."
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Very Good. 2014 University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois), 6 x 9 inches tall trade paperback, [6], 432 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with a bit of 'cover curl' to the fore edge of the front cover. Inscription believed to be by co-author Daniel Gross to half title page. Otherwise, a very good copy-clean, bright and unmarked. ~DDD~ [2, 0P] Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. Emotion remained on the scene of scientific and popular study but largely at the fringes as a behavioral reflex, or as a concern of the private sphere. So why, by the 1960s, had the study of emotions returned to the forefront of academic investigation? In Science and Emotions after 1945, Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross chronicle the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate-but instead consolidated-the emotional turn by clearing the ground for multidisciplinary work on the emotions. Science and Emotions after 1945 tells the story of this shift by looking closely at scientific disciplines in which the study of emotions has featured prominently, including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, and the social sciences, viewed in each case from a humanities perspective.
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New. Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rationalism took central stage. This book chronicles the curious resurgence of emotion studies. Editor(s): Biess, Frank; Gross, Daniel M. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; JMQ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 226 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584. 2014. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
