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Similar to the sociology of emotions or anthropology of emotions, the history of emotions is based on the assumption that not only the expression of feelings, but also the feelings themselves are learned. Culture and history are changing and so are feelings as well as their expression.
No one really felt emotions before about 1830. Instead, they felt other things – ‘passions’, ‘accidents of the soul’, ‘moral sentime nts’ – and explained them very differently from how we understand emotions today. Some an cient G reeks believed a defiant rage was carried on an ill wind.
According to the literature, no one really felt emotions before about 1830. Instead, they felt other things — ‘passions’, ‘accidents of the soul’, ‘moral sentiments’ — and explained...
Jan 13, 2016 · ‘What exactly is the history of emotions?’ This question, often still encountered by historians working in the field, suggests that the history of emotions is difficult to understand yet hard to ignore.
- Christian Bailey
- 2016
Aug 5, 2021 · Emotions have appeared in histories, and associated writings, for centuries. History writing has sometimes valued the emotional; in eighteenth-century Europe, the centrality of the idea of sympathetic exchange to communication ensured that many historians of the period sought to produce feelings in their readers. 1 The emotions of historical ...
- Katie Barclay
- 2021
Dixon and Chaney’s research shows us that emotions are neither basic nor hard-wired. We can use history to inform our discourse on emotions, and look beyond medical definitions which can pathologise some emotions.
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shape emotional states and experiences across time and cultures. This review describes how the concept of emotion developed in Western thought, from the Renaissance notion of the passions to the 19th century idea of ‘emotion’. In 1884, William James (1842–1910) famously asked, ‘What is an Emotion?’1 Such a question still resonates ...
