The secret history of emotion
Subtitle: from Aristotle's rhetoric to modern brain science
By: Daniel M. Gross.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Emotions -- Social aspects -- History.; Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern emotion and the economy of scarcity; title: Apathy in the shadow economy of emotion; title: Virtues of passivity in the English civil war; title: The politics of pride in David Hume and David Simple; title: Thinking and feeling without a brain : William Perfect and Adam Smith's compassion.