The History of Emotions

Jan Plamper obtained a BA from Brandeis University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, after which he taught at the University of Tübingen and from 2008 to 2012 was a Dilthey Fellow at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, in Berlin. He is co-editor, with Benjamin Lazier, of Fear: Across the Disciplines (2012); and co-editor, with Marc Elie and Schamma Schahadat, of Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul'turnoi istorii emotsii [In the Realm of Russian Feelings: Approaches to the Cultural History of Emotions] (2010). He has also recently authored The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (2012).

• History and Emotions: An IntroductionWhat Is Emotion?Who Has Emotion?Where Is Emotion?Do Emotions Have a History?What Sources Might We Use in Writing the History of Emotions?One: The History of the History of EmotionsLucien Febvre and the History of EmotionsThe History of Emotions Prior to FebvreThe History of Emotions in the Time of Febvre and AfterThe History of Emotions and 9/11Barbara H. Rosenwein and Emotional CommunitiesTwo: Social Constructivism: AnthropologyThe Varieties of EmotionsEmotions in Travel Writings and Early AnthropologyEmotions in the Anthropological ClassicsEarly Anthropology of Emotions in the 1970sThe Linguistic Turn and Social ConstructivismSocial Constructivism alongside Rosaldo, Abu-Lughod, and LutzThe Social Constructivist Anthropology of Emotions: Some Preliminary ConclusionsThe 1990s I: The Anthropology of Emotions after Social ConstructivismThe 1990s II: The Supersession of the Social Constructivism-Universalism Duality?Recent Universalist Anthropology of EmotionsThree: Universalism: Life SciencesPaul Ekman and Basic EmotionsRoad Map for Chapter ThreeCharles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), or, How One Book Became a Battlefield between Social Constructivists and UniversalistsThe Beginnings of Psychological Research into Emotions, or, How Feelings, Passions, and Changes of Mood Migrated from Theology to Psychology and in the Process Became 'Emotions'Emotion Laboratories and Laboratory Emotions, or, on the Birth of Psychological Conceptions of Emotion from the Experimental SpiritHow Ideas of Social Order also Ordered the Interior of the BrainResearch into the Emotional Response of the BrainFreud's Missing Theory of FeelingThe Boom in the Psychology of Emotion from the 1960s OnwardsA Synthetic Cognitive-Physiological Theory of Emotion: The Schachter-Singer ModelEvaluating Emotions: Cognitive Psychology and Appraisal ModelsThe Neurosciences, fMRI Scanning and Other Imaging ProceduresJoseph LeDoux and the Two Roads to FearAntonio R. Damasio and the Somatic Marker HypothesisGiacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, Marco Iacoboni, Mirror Neurons, and Social EmotionsOn the Shoulders of Dwarves, or, The Neurosciences as a 'Trojan Horse' for the Human and Social SciencesAffectarians of All Lands, Unite! The Neurosciences as Represented by Hardt, Negri, & Co.Borrowings from the Neurosciences: An Interim BalanceBeyond all Divides: The Critical Neurosciences and Genuine Possibilities for Co-OperationFour: Perspectives in the History of EmotionsThe Navigation of Feeling: William M. Reddy's Attempt to Move beyond Social Constructivism and UniversalismEmotional PracticesNeurohistoryPerspectives in the History of EmotionProspectsConclusion

this introductory volume will be difficult to surpass