Introduction

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Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 792-797

  White, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EMOTIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77949303698     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652019     Document Type: Review

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2. On bodily discipline in science see Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin, eds., Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1998)
3. See, e.g., Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin (London: Joseph, 1991)
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5. In neuroscience see Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)
6. Antonio R. Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003). In philosophy of mind and psychoanalytic theory see Jerome Neu, A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing: The Meanings of Emotion (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000). In moral philosophy see Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
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10. This is particularly evident, e.g., in William Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), and it is an undercurrent in some cultural history of emotions. See Peter N. Stearns and Carol Z. Stearns, "Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards," American Historical Review, 1985, 4:813-836
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12. See also Peter Burke, "Is There a Cultural History of the Emotions?" in Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music, and Medicine, ed. Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 35-47.
13. See also Thomas Dixon, From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003)
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19. See also Barbara Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001)
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