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A Natural History of Human Emotions
About this book
A "fresh and entertaining" survey of the human emotional landscape—and how it has shifted over the centuries (
Kirkus Reviews).
Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions—fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness—and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind's first musings on achieving a perfect utopia.
Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why, in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Like An Intimate History of Humanity and Near a Thousand Tables, Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions is a provocative examination of human feelings and a fascinating take on how emotions have shaped our past.
Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions—fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness—and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind's first musings on achieving a perfect utopia.
Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why, in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Like An Intimate History of Humanity and Near a Thousand Tables, Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions is a provocative examination of human feelings and a fascinating take on how emotions have shaped our past.
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INDEX
Abbas, Ali xx–xxi
Abbott, Gilbert 109
Abel 174–7
Abraham 14, 177, 377–8
Adam 21, 174, 244, 245, 253, 362
Adorno, Theodor 28, 132, 139–40, 324, 326
Aesthetic Theory 331
Minima Moralia 323
Negative Dialectics 27
Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max: Dialectic of Enlightenment 9
Adverts 235
Aelian 161
Aeschylus 143
Oresteia trilogy 148
Aesop Fables: ‘The Fox and the Lion’ 230–31
afterlife 9, 10
aggression therapy 74–5
Air Rage 81
Alaric 363
Albert, Prince Consort 96, 165–6, 321
Alda, Alan 342, 343
Alder Hey hospital, Liverpool 106
Alexander the Great 95, 212
Alexander III, Pope 266
Allen, Woody 341, 342–3
Allende, Salvador 24
Altamira 6
altruism 228–9
Amritsar massacre 51
amyl nitrite 287
anaesthesia 108–110
anagnorisis 339
anatomy 103–8
Andersen, Hans Christian 28
The Emperor’s New Suit of Clothes 243–4
Andrew, St 267
anger
Darwin’s physical indicators 43
defined 43
I am angered 73–84
I enrage 60–72
one of Darwin’s basic emotions xvi
public 50–52
suppression of 52–4, 57, 74
to be angry 45–59
Anger, Kenneth 300, 301–2
Hollywood Babylon series 391
anger management therapy 46
Anglican Church 258
Angst 10
Angyal, Andras 96–7
anhedonia 238
animal experimentation 106
animal sacrifice 6
Anselm, St 11, 12, 13
anti—nuclear movement 70–71
anxiety 334
appetites, the 99
arachibutyrophobia 41–2
Arendt, Hannah: The Human Condition xii
Argyle, Duke of 292, 296, 297
Aristophanes 146, 340
Aristotle 95, 112, 185, 339
Poetics 151, 159, 273, 338
Politics 151
Armstrong, J...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Fear
- Anger
- Disgust
- Sadness
- Jealousy
- Contempt
- Shame
- Embarrassment
- Surprise
- Happiness
- Bibliography
- Index