Before Emotion

Curie Virág is Associate Professor in World Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK and a specialist in the philosophy and intellectual history of early and middle period China and in the cross-cultural study of thought and learned traditions in premodern cultures. David Konstan was a Professor of Classics at New York University and Emeritus Professor at Brown University, USA. His research focused on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Concept of “Emotion” from Plato to Cicero.- Chapter 3. Pali Buddhist Conceptions of Feeling.- Chapter 4. Out of Aesthetics: Seeing the Emotions in Sanskrit Rasa Theory.- Chapter 5. Emotions as Webs of Connectivity in Early China.- Chapter 6. Doing and Sensing Emotions in the Hebrew Bible: A Philological Approach.- Chapter 7. Hieroglyphic Embodiments and Assemblages of Emotion in Ancient Egypt: A Neurolinguistic Approach.- Chapter 8. Sumerian Terms of Emotions in Light of Current Theories.- Chapter 9. A Sketch of Emotions in Hittite Texts.- Chapter 10. Beneath the Surface: Masking and Feigning in Latin Literature.- Chapter 11. Managing Emotions and Medieval Islamic Piety.- Chapter 12. Mono No Aware in the 11th-century Japanese Literary Classic The Tale of Genji.- Chapter 13. Afterword: “How Many Ages Hence”.