Story of emotions

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The history of emotions (or also: history of feelings) developed into a new field of research in historical studies in the 2000s. Although there are forerunners of the history of emotions - especially the Histoire des sensibilités a Lucien Febvre or Psycho History of Peter Gay - links the history of emotions methodically rather to newer historiographical approaches such as the conceptual history , the historical Constructivism as well as the history of the body on.

development

Similar to the sociology or ethnology of emotions, the history of emotions is based on the assumption that not only the expression of emotions but also the feelings themselves are learned. Culture and history shape and change feelings as well as their expression. The social relevance and effectiveness of emotions is historically and culturally variable. From the point of view of many emotion historians , “ emotion ” is accordingly just as fundamental a category of history as class , race or gender .

A number of different methodological approaches have been discussed in recent years. Some emotion historians limit themselves to the historical analysis of emotional norms and rules under the heading of emotionology . In the recent past in particular, however, the methodological spectrum of the history of emotions has been expanded to include performative, constructivist and practical theoretical approaches. The currently fundamental methodological concepts include emotive , emotional habitus and emotional practice. In addition, there are a number of terms that describe the different reach and commitment of emotional cultures such as emotional community , emotional regime or emotional style , and those that reflect the cultural translation and conveyance of feelings such as emotional broker or emotional go-between .

literature

introduction

  • Jan Plamper , history and feeling. Basics of the history of emotions, Munich: Siedler 2012.

Research reports

  • Susan J. Matt: Current Emotion Research in History: Or, Doing History from the Inside Out . In: Emotion Review 3, 1 (2011), pp. 117–124.
  • Bettina Hitzer : Emotion story - a beginning with consequences (PDF; 380 kB). Research report, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, November 23, 2011.
  • Anna Wierzbicka: The "History of Emotions" and the Future of Emotion Research . In: Emotion Review 2, 3 (2010), pp. 269-273.
  • Nina Verheyen: History of Emotions, Version 1.0 . in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, June 18, 2010. Online at docupedia.de.
  • Barbara H. Rosenwein: Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions . In: Passions in Context: Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Emotions 1 (2010). Online at www.passionsincontext.de . (PDF, English; 325 kB).
  • William M. Reddy: Historical Research on the Self and Emotions , in: Emotion Review 1, 4 (2009), pp. 302-315.
  • Florian Weber: From the classical theory of affect to neuroscience and back. Paths of Emotion Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences , in: Neue Politische Literatur 53 (2008), pp. 21–42.
  • Daniela Saxer: Act with feeling. Approaches to the history of emotions . In: Traverse 14 (2007), pp. 15-29. Online at E-Periodica.ch.
  • Alexandra Przyrembel : Longing for feelings. On the boom of emotions in history . In: L'homme 16 (2005), pp. 116-124.
  • Rüdiger Schnell: Historical research on emotions. A medieval assessment . In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 38 (2004), pp. 173–276.
  • Hermann Boeschenstein: German feeling culture. Studies of their poetic design. I: The Basics (1770-1830). Bern 1954.
  • Ute Frevert , Monique Scheer, Anne Schmidt, Pascal Eitler, Bettina Hitzer, Nina Verheyen, Benno Gammerl, Christian Bailey, Margrit Pernau: Emotional knowledge . A lexical search for clues in the modern age . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39389-6 .

Method discussions

  • AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions , in: American Historical Review 117 (2012), pp. 1487–1531: http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/117/5/1487.full.pdf+html
  • Frank Biess, Discussion Forum “History of Emotions” (with Alon Confino, Ute Frevert, Uffa Jensen, Lyndal Roper , Daniela Saxer), in: German History 28 (2010), no. 1, pp. 67-80
  • Maren Lorenz : Deep wounds. Experience of violence in the wars of the early modern period , in: Ulrich Bielefeld / Heinz Bude / Bernd Greiner (eds.): Society - Violence - Trust. Jan Philipp Reemtsma on his 60th birthday, Hamburger Edition: Hamburg 2012, pp. 332–354.
  • Jan Plamper: How do you write the story of feelings? William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein and Peter Stearns in conversation with Jan Plamper , in: Werkstatt Geschichte 54 (2010), pp. 39–69

Research centers and associations

Other web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucien Febvre: La sensibilité et l'histoire. Comment reconstituer la vie affective d'autrefois? , in: Annales d'histoire sociale 3 (1941), pp. 5-20.
  2. ↑ See for example Peter Gay's main work: The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud , 5 vols., New York 1984-1998.
  3. ↑ For approaches to body history cf. Pascal Eitler and Monique Scheer: Emotion history as body history. A heuristic perspective on religious conversions in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 35/2009, pp. 282–313; on the forerunners of the history of emotions cf. Jan Plamper: history and feeling. Basics of the history of emotions. Munich: Siedler 2012, pp. 53–72.
  4. ↑ The term emotionology goes back to: Peter N. Stearns / Carol Z. Stearns: Emotionology. Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards , in: The American Historical Review 90, 4 (1985), pp. 813-830 and Rom Harré (ed.): The Social Construction of Emotion. Oxford 1986.
  5. ^ William M. Reddy: Against Constructionism. The Historical Ethnography of Emotions , in: Current Anthropology 38.3 (1997), pp. 327-351.
  6. ↑ Cf. Monique Scheer: Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuan Approach to Understanding Emotion. In: History and Theory 51, no. 2 (May 2012), pp. 193-220.
  7. ↑ Barbara H. Rosenwein: Worrying about Emotions in History , in: The American Historical Review 107.3 (2002), pp. 821-845.
  8. ^ William M. Reddy: The Navigation of Feeling. Cambridge 2001.
  9. ↑ For a discussion of different concepts cf. Benno Gammerl: Emotional Styles - Concepts and Challenges , in: Rethinking History, 16, 2 (2012), pp. 161–175.
  10. ↑ Cf. Manuel Kohlert: Ideal Balance. The political economy of emotions during the Spanish expansion . Frankfurt / New York 2019.