Osiris, Volume 31: History of Science and the Emotions (Volume 31)

Dror, Otniel E.; Hitzer, Bettina; Laukötter, Anja; León-Sanz, Pilar

ISBN 10: 022639204X / ISBN 13: 9780226392042

Published by University of Chicago Press Journals (edition 1), 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Osiris, Volume 31: History of Science and the Emotions (Volume 31)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022639204X
• ISBN 13: 9780226392042
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of Osiris explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dialogue between the history of emotions and the history of science leads to a rethinking of our categories of analysis, our subjects, and our periodizations. The ten case studies in the volume explore these possibilities and interrelationships across North America and Europe, between the twelfth and the twentieth centuries, in a variety of scientific disciplines. They analyze how scientific communities approached and explained the functions of emotions; how the concomitant positioning of emotions in or between body-mind-intersubjectivity took place; how emotions infused practices and how practices generated emotions; and, ultimately, how new and emerging identities of and criteria for emotions created new knowledge, new technologies, and new subjectivities.

About the Authors

Bettina Hitzer is a historian with the History of Emotions Research Center at the Berlin-based Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Anja Laukötter is a researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Pilar León-Sanz is associate professor of the history of medicine and director of the Department of Biomedical Humanities at the University of Navarra School of Medicine.