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This chapter introduces the volume’s project, a cross-cultural comparison of approaches to emotion in ancient China and ancient Greece and in the two disciplines which have investigated those cultures. It thus encompasses comparison of the methods of two scholarly disciplines as well as the materials and sources of two ancient cultural traditions. The chapter argues that emotions are (a) vernacular, not scientific, categories and (b) shared, intersubjective processes in the world rather than private, inner psychological experiences. Their event-like structure lends itself to representation in narratives that go far beyond the skull and the skin. Since emotions are implicated in the relations between people, in the external conditions in which they arise and which give rise to them, and in the actions that embodied human agents take in a given emotional scenario, cross-cultural comparison between approaches to emotion in different cultures must focus not on simple morphological similarities between decontextualized phenomena, but on function in wider social and cultural contexts.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | In the Mind, in the Body, in the World |
Subtitle of host publication | Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece |
Editors | Douglas Cairns, Curie Virág |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 1-37 |
Number of pages | 37 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780197681831 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780197681800 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 30 Apr 2024 |
Publication series
Name | Emotions of the Past |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- affect
- ancient China
- ancient Greece
- categorization
- cross-cultural comparison
- embodiment
- emotion
- narrative
- metaphor
- scripts
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Dive into the research topics of 'Introduction: Emotions as a topic of cross-cultural and historical investigation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Finished
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IN THE MIND, IN THE BODY AND IN THE WORLD: EMOTIONS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND CHINA
1/06/18 → 31/05/20
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Book
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In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Cairns, D. & Virag, C., 30 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 317 p. (Emotions of the Past)Research output: Book/Report › Book