Emotion, Sense, Experience

Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians to engage in a dialogue about the genealogy of emotions and the senses, arguing that recent treatments have segregated them unhelpfully. It proposes bringing emotions and sensory history into conversation to understand historical lived experience as a mutable product of a situated world-brain-body dynamic. This project re-imagines the human being as biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new interdisciplinary collaborations with social neuroscience.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 75 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Emotion, sense, and experience beckon historians of emotions and the senses to engage in a profound and enduring dialogue. The Element unveils the intricate, often overlooked lineage of historical writing, emphasizing a braided history of emotions and the senses. It elucidates why recent historical approaches have occasionally, albeit inadvertently, compartmentalized emotions from the senses, while also presenting a compelling argument for the heuristic and interpretive benefits of integrating emotions and sensory history. Ultimately, we envision a fresh perspective on historical lived experience, as a dynamic and mutable outcome of the interplay between a situated world, brain, and body. This endeavor necessitates new interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly with social neuroscience. By challenging prevailing notions about affective and sensory experience, we re-conceptualize the human being as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and fostering fresh collaborative endeavors.

Weight: 128g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108813631