Emotions across Cultures

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It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotion...

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It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call “hope.” Daring not to do, or “undaring,” was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.

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Preface
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Contents
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
Comparing Emotions Historically
David Konstan
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You are What Eats at You: Anxiety in Medieval Chinese Divinatory and Medical Manuals
Zhao Lu
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Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle
Douglas Cairns
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A Brief History of Daring
Michael Nylan und Trenton Wilson
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Anger as an Ethnographic Trope: Changing Views from Aristotle to Seneca
Randolph Ford
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Hatred and Revenge in Ancient China During the Qin and Han (221 B.C.-220 A.D.): The Expression of Emotions and the Conflict between Ritual and Law
Yang Hua
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Tragic Emotions – Then and Now
Stavroula Kiritsi
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Analyzing the Emotions across Three Ancient Cultures: Greece, India, China
John T. Kirby
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Gender, Social Hierarchies, and Negative Emotions in Liu Xiang’s Biographies of Women
Yiqun Zhou
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Emotions, Measurement and the Technê of Practical Wisdom in Xúnzǐ’s Ethical Theory
Curie Virág
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Contributors
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Index
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