Psychology: emotions Books

Book SynopsisOver the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ridden, stiff and rigid. Debates around Norbert Elias’ theory of civilising processes gave rise to questions of a change in direction of these patterns. The concept of informalisation, which describes these transformations, was first used to analyse the tumultuous changes of the 1960s and 1970s. This increasing informality, leniency and flexibility, comes hand-in-hand with a growing demand on individuals to self-regulate their emotions. This book will stimulate debate around the changes in the standards of manners and emotion regulation, and will generate new avenues of enquiry that focus on issues involving informalisation. The chapters shed light on a variety of such moral and political issues over the last 150 years, offering a new and broader scope on the present social condition of humanity. Civilisation and Informalisation will be an important addition for students and scholars of figurational process sociology, and of broader interest to academics across sociology, social psychology and social history. Table of ContentsPart One: The Book.- 1. Informalisation: An Introduction; Cas Wouters.- 2. Informalisation and Evolution: Four Phases in the Development of Steering Codes; Cas Wouters.- 3. Informalisation and Emancipation of Lust and Love: Integration of Sexualisation and Eroticisation Since the 1880s; Cas Wouters.- 4. Informalisation of Rituals in Dying and Mourning: Changes in the We–I Balance; Cas Wouters.- 5. Informalisation, Functional Democratisation and Globalisation; Cas Wouters.- 6. Universally Applicable Criteria for Analysing Social and Psychic Processes: Nine Tension Balances, One Triad; Cas Wouters.- Part Two: The Selection.- 7. Informalisation Through the Lens: Black & White and the Development of Photography as Art; Jonathan Fletcher.- 8.- Informalisation and Brutalisation: Jihadism as a Part-Process of Global of Integration and Disintegration Processes; Michael Dunning.- 9. Informalisation and Sport: The Case of Jogging/Running in the USA (1960-2000); Raúl Sánchez-García.- 10. Informalisation and Integration Conflicts: The Two-Faced Reception of Migrants in the Netherlands; Arjan Post.- 11. Formalisation and Informalisation of Meeting Manners; Wilbert van Vree.- 12. Informalisation Sociological Theory and Social Diagnosis; Richard Kilminster.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader on a philosophical quest to understand the dark side of emotions. The chapters are devoted to the analysis of negative emotions and are organized in a historical manner, spanning the period from ancient Greece to the present time. Each chapter addresses analytical questions about specific emotions generally considered to be unfavorable and classified as negative. The general aim of the volume is to describe the polymorphous and context-sensitive nature of negative emotions as well as changes in the ways people have interpreted these emotions across different epochs. The editors speak of ‘the dark side of the emotions’ because their goal is to capture the ambivalent – unstable and shadowy – aspects of emotions. A number of studies have taken the categorial distinction between positive and negative emotions for granted, suggesting that negative emotions are especially significant for our psychological experience because they signal difficult situations. For this reason, the editors stress the importance of raising analytical questions about the valence of particular emotions and focussing on the features that make these emotions ambivalent: how – despite their negativity – such emotions may turn out to be positive. This opens up a perspective in which each emotion can be understood as a complex interlacing of negative and positive properties. The collection presents a thoughtful dialogue between philosophy and contemporary scientific research. It offers the reader insight by illuminating the dark side of the emotions.Table of ContentsPaola Giacomoni, Sara Dellantonio, Nicolò Valentini - Introduction Anna Beltrametti (University of Pavia) - Philosophical fear and tragic fear Martina Di Stefano (University of Trento, PHD Student) - The pathos of ridicule in Plato’s Dialogues Fulvia De Luise (University of Trento) - Shame and self-consciousness in Plato’s Symposium: Reversing the meaning of a social emotion Silvia Gastaldi (University of Pavia) - Envy and competition in Aristotle’s Rhetoric Andrea Aldo Robiglio (University of Leuven)- Aquinas on the benefits of disgust for the sound use of reason Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) - The normative code of emotions: Christian mythology and the construction of a normative psychology Paola Giacomoni (University of Trento)- An optimistic anger? Barbara Carnevali (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) - Glory, The race for prestige in the Hobbesian model Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis (University of Milano)- The pleasure of weeping: The novelty of research Caterina Maurer (University of Trento)– Blushing with shame: The feeling of the discordance between what I am and what I ought to be in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit Nicolò Valentini (University of Trento, PHD student)- The subtle interplay between disgust and morality: Miasma as a case study Alessandro Grecucci (University of Trento), – How shame guides our lives. Historical, Philosophical and Psychological perspectives Pastore, Luigi (University of Bari), Dellantonio, Sara (University of Trento) - The negative effects of the missing emotion awareness: The case of alexithymia

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Book Synopsis Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans in modern German cultural history. In recent years, fascination with emotions, developments in robotics, and the burgeoning of animal studies in and beyond the academy have given rise to questions about the nature of humanity. Using sources from the life sciences, literature, visual art, poetry, philosophy, and photography, this collection interrogates not animal or machine emotions per se, but rather uses animals and machines as lenses through which to investigate human emotions and the affective entanglements between humans and non-humans. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more keenly aware of the importance of both animals and new technologies in our daily lives, and this volume ultimately sheds light on the centrality of non-humans in the human emotional world and the possibilities that relationships with non-humans offer for enriching that world. Watch our talk with the editors Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek here: https://youtu.be/RBMwXah_Om8

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Book SynopsisWie funktioniert Sprache? Was spielt sich beim Denken in unserem Kopf ab? Wie lösen wir Probleme? Und in welchem Verhältnis stehen Denken und Sprache zueinander? Das Buch liefert Antworten und verschafft einen fundierten Überblick. In Einbezug historischer Experimente und aktueller Forschungsergebnisse werden grundlegende Konzepte und Theorien zu Sprache und Denken vermittelt.Table of Contents

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