The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science

205 Pages·2006·5.43 MB·English

by  Daniel M. Gross

The Secret History of Emotion

The Secret History
of Emotion
FromAristotle’s«Rhetoric»toModernBrainScience
daniel m. gross
TheUniversityofChicagoPress (cid:2) ChicagoandLondon
danielm.gross TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637
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EconomyofScarcity,’’PhilosophyandRhetoric34,
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1.Emotions—Socialaspects—History.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction:ANewRhetoricofPassions 1
1 EarlyModernEmotionandtheEconomyofScarcity 21
2 ApathyintheShadowEconomyofEmotion 51
3 VirtuesofPassivityintheEnglishCivilWar 85
4 ThePoliticsofPrideinDavidHumeandDavidSimple 113
5 ThinkingandFeelingwithoutaBrain:WilliamPerfect
andAdamSmith’sCompassion 157
Index 181

Acknowledgments
Theseedofthisprojectgerminatedinthemid-1990swhileIwas
finishing my graduate work in the rhetoric department at the
University of California, Berkeley. During this period, Judith
Butler, Fe´lipe Gutterriez, Victoria Kahn, Hans Sluga, Nancy
Struever, John Tinkler, and Hayden White nurtured a project
thatwouldemergeonlyuponmydeparture.Adissertationyear
at Tu¨bingen University in Germany on a DAAD Fellowship,
where I was sponsored by Gert Ueding of the Seminar fu¨r
Allgemeine Rhetorik, advanced my work on the phenomenol-
ogy of emotion and gave me access to early modern material
unavailableelsewhere.
The project crystallized during my two years as Andrew
W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California,
Los Angeles, where I enjoyed formal association with the
UCLA Humanities Consortium (Center for Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Studies), the Department of English and
theDepartmentComparativeLiteratureatUCLA,theWilliam
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the Getty Research
Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, which in
1998shared“passions’’withtheUCLAHumanitiesConsortium
asatopicofspecialinquiry.FromthisperiodIthankfortheirin-
putandsupportTomAlbrecht,PageduBois,MarthaFeldman,