牛津通识读本：情绪的历史 The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

Series:Very Short Introductions

Format:Paperback / softback 176 pages

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Oxford University Press

ISBN:9780198818298

Published:25 May 2023

Weight:146g

Dimensions:110 x 174 x 11 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Tariff Codes:49019900

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

非常简短的介绍：情绪是一种复杂的心理状态，难以还原。它们是内脏的反应，也是对世界的信念。它们是自发的爆发，但也是文化上的表演。它们是亲密和私密的，但只有从人际和社会框架中才能获得其内容和意义。正如我们的情绪在任何特定时刻都显示出这种复杂的结构一样，它们的历史也是多元的而不是单一的。情感的历史是思想史与身体史相遇的地方，也是主体性的历史与社会和文化历史相遇的地方。

在这本《非常简短的介绍》中，托马斯-狄克逊追溯了从悲伤、忧郁、愤怒和恐怖到欢快、热情、同情和爱等各种情感的历史祖先，画面是复杂的，它显示了我们今天作为 "情感 "归类的状态是如何在语言、文化、和生活方式的长期和不同的历史变化中产生的。《伊利亚特》中阿基里斯的悲痛欲绝的愤怒、美国《独立宣言》中的幸福感、历代引发十字军和革命的人类之爱，以及现代抗议运动的正义之怒，从这个角度看都是不同的。

通过古代、中世纪和现代文化中的例子，包括被遗忘的情感和现代情感制度的建立，这本《非常简短的介绍》通过查看历史学家可以告诉我们的过去，对我们现在的情感进行了新的揭示。Dixon解释了情感史学家的主要观点，因为这些观点是在与心理学和精神病学的对话中发展起来的，特别注意了关于基本情感、心理学构造和效应理论的观点。

关于该系列：《极简介绍》系列包含了几乎所有学科领域的数百种书。这些袖珍书籍是快速掌握新学科的途径。我们的专家作者将事实、分析、观点、新想法和热情结合起来，使有趣和具有挑战性的主题具有高度的可读性。

Very Short Introductions:Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances.

They are intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideasmeets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history.

In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon traces the historical ancestries of feelings ranging from sorrow, melancholy, rage, and terror to cheerfulness, enthusiasm, sympathy, and love. The picture that emerges is a complex one, showing how the states we group together today as "the emotions" are the product of long and varied historical changes in language, culture, beliefs, and ways of life. The grief-stricken rage of Achilles in the Iliad, the happiness inscribed inAmerica's Declaration of Independence, the love of humanity that fired crusades and revolutions through the ages, and the righteous rage of modern protest movements all look different when seen through this lens.

With examples from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures, including forgotten feelings and the creation of modern emotional regimes, this Very Short Introduction sheds new light on our emotions in the present, by looking at what historians can tell us about their past. Dixon explains the key ideas of historians of emotions as they have developed in conversation with psychology and psychiatry, with attention paid especially to ideas about basic emotions, psychological construction, andaffect theory. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.

These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

作者简介

托马斯-迪克森是伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院的历史教授和情感史中心主任。他的研究和教学探索激情、情感、爱、利他主义、眼泪和哭泣的知识和文化历史，特别是在英国。他的著作包括：《从激情到情感》（From Passions to Emotions）： 一个世俗心理学范畴的创造》（2003年）、《利他主义的发明》： 在维多利亚时代的英国制造道德意义》（2008年），以及《哭泣的不列颠：一个国家的泪水肖像》（2015年）。他的广播作品包括英国广播公司的友谊史和孤独史，以及获奖的播客系列 "愤怒的声音"，该系列是作为惠康基金会情感健康研究项目的一部分制作的。

Thomas Dixon is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His research and teaching explore the intellectual and cultural histories of passions, emotions, love, altruism, tears, and weeping, especially in Britain. His books include From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category (2003), The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (2008), and Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015). His broadcast work has included histories of friendship and of solitude for BBC Radio 4, and an award-winning podcast series, “The Sound of Anger”, made as part of a Wellcome Trust research project on emotional health.