Emotions in History - Lost and Found

• Main Author: Ute Frevert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2011
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; politics; habits; emotions; politicians; semantics; discourse; international relations; speech; rulers; affective language; collective emotions; gendering emotions; human behaviour; lexicology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything "neuro." On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since "emotional intellig...