A natural history of human emotions
By: Stuart Walton.
Edition: 1st Grove Press ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Emotions
Description: "Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Wilson'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. Our private lives have benefited from greater emotional honesty, while some emotions, such as anger, now seem to dominate public discourse."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fear; title: Anger; title: Disgust; title: Sadness; title: Jealousy; title: Contempt; title: Shame; title: Embarrassment; title: Surprise; title: Happiness.