TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gross,Daniel M.
TI  - The secret history of emotion: from Aristotle's Rhetoric to modern brain science 
SN  - 9780226309934 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BF531 .G76 2006eb
U1  - 152.409 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago, Ill., Bristol
PB  - University of Chicago Press, University Presses Marketing [distributor]
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Emotions (Philosophy)
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Death, Grief, Bereavement
KW  - ემოციები
KW  - სოციალური ასპექტები
KW  - ფილოსოფია
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Rhetoric of Passions; 1 Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity; 2 Apathy in the Shadow Economy of Emotion; 3 Virtues of Passivity in the English Civil War; 4 The Politics of Pride in David Hume and David Simple; 5 Thinking and Feeling without a Brain: William Perfect and Adam Smith's Compassion; Index
N2  - Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today. Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectu
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