Emotions in a Transdisciplinary Light

Stefano Calabrese, Annamaria Contini (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

130 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
9783631926512 (ISBN)

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The volume is based on the assumption that, as demonstrated by the British psychologist Keith Oatley and the Portuguese neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, emotions are involuntary responses to sensory triggers and give rise to real action programs. Generated by the limbic brain and capable of releasing chemical molecules such as dopamine or cortisol, the triggering of emotional responses is involuntarily and relies on images for activation since they have the power to capture emotions, as argued by Aby Warburg.
This means that, although emotions are genetically embedded in our behavioral repertoire, they are controlled and managed according to the social group and culture to which individuals belong. As a matter of fact, all individuals share the same repertoire of emotional responses, but it is culture that governs how this repertoire is expressed.
Desire and lust, care and nourishment, attachment and love, joy, anger, contempt, panic, compassion, admiration, fear, envy, and jealousy find their activation space in the social context. So, for Damasio, emotions represent a toolkit essential to relational life, and this volume primarily addresses the relationship between emotions and historical-cultural contexts.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Transcultural Studies - Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies ; 20
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	247 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Emotions • Evidential paradigm • fear • Fictionalism • Involuntary • Jealousy • Novel • Schnitzler • Situated identity • Spinoza • Superstition • svevo • Truth
ISBN-13	9783631926512 / 9783631926512
Zustand	Neuware