Rethinking Emotion: Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Rethinking Emotion

Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought

Edited by: Rüdiger Campe and Julia Weber

Volume 15 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259254

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What are emotions, where do they originate and how are they brought into being? While from antiquity to early modernity, affects or passions were mostly conceived of as external physiological forces which act upon a passive subject, modern conceptions generally locate emotions within the subject. Drawing on the dichotomy of “interiority / exteriority” as a complex interdependent relationship, they mostly envision emotions as interior processes. Contemporary conceptions of emotion from such different fields as human geography, art history and cognitive sciences recently started to challenge this notion of internal emotions by developing alternative descriptions of externalized emotion.

This book reevaluates premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects, passions and emotion by analyzing various historical manifestations of the discourse on emotion. Unlike most previous research, which ‑ especially in the German tradition ‑ often focused exclusively on the rise of the modern (Romantic) interiority without paying attention to the underlying dichotomy of “interiority / exteriority”, this study aims to explore the historical preconditions, the internal logic and the possible shortcomings that inform our thinking on emotion.

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Rüdiger Campe, Yale University, USA; Julia Weber, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Rethinking Emotion: Moving beyond Interiority Rüdiger Campe and Julia Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Modes of Interiorization: Emotion before the Great Dichotomy
From Moving the Soul to Moving into the Soul Catherine Newmark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Presenting the Affect The Scene of Pathos in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Its Revision in Descartes’s Passions of the Soul Rüdiger Campe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
The Art of Prayer Conversions of Interiority and Exteriority in Medieval Contemplative Practice Niklaus Largier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Contact at a Distance The Topology of Fascination Brigitte Weingart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chardin: Inwardness – Emotion – Communication Beate Söntgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
II. Interiority/Exteriority: Thinking and Writing Emotion
“… that until now, the inner world of man has been given … such unimaginative treatment” Constructions of Interiority around 1800 Bernhard Greiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Inside/Out Mediating Interiority in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel Julia Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Keller’s Cellar Vaults Intrusions of the Real in Gottfried Keller’s Realism Rainer Nägele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Toward a Genealogy of the Internalized Human Being Nietzsche on the Emotion of Guilt Daniel Cuonz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
“The Real Horizon” (beyond Emotions) What Proust (Wordsworth, Rousseau, Diderot, and Hegel) Had ‘in’ Mind Claudia Brodsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
III. Thinking beyond Interiority: Reconceptualizing Emotion after the Great Dichotomy
The Role of the Lived-Body in Feeling Bernhard Waldenfels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Artificial Emotions Melodramatic Practices of Shared Interiority Hermann Kappelhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Feelings on Faces From Physiognomics to Neuroscience David Freedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Emotions and Other Minds Joel Krueger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Whereabouts Locating Emotions between Body, Mind, and World Rebekka Hufendiek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literary Studies, Cognitive Sciences), Libraries, Departments
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 383
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
Keywords: History of Emotion; Interiority/Exteriority; Cultural History; Cognitive Sciences

eBook

Published: June 18, 2014
ISBN: 9783110259254

Hardcover

Published: May 28, 2014
ISBN: 9783110259247