The History of Emotions: Past, Present, Future
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This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a convergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important observations about the biocultural status of human beings. While the article stops short of exhorting historians to become competent neuroscientists themselves, it does demand that historians of emotions take note of the implications of social neuroscientific research in particular, with a view to capturing the potential of the emotions to unlock the history of experience, and with a mind to unlocking the political importance of work in this area, namely, the shifting ground of what it means —how it feels— to be human.
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Context shapes the content and expression of emotion.
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From Feeling the Way to Revelation: Patterns of Doubt and Persuasion in Tibetan Buddhist Auto/biographical Treasure Narratives (2021) · cites this paper as Boddice 2017: 6
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- Authors
- Boddice, R.
- Affiliations
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Boddice, Rob
- ORCID
- Boddice, Rob
- Venue
- Revista de Estudios Sociales
- Publisher
- Universidad de los Andes
- Published
- 2017-09-01
- Issue
- 62
- Pages
- 10-15
- ISSN
- 0123-885X (ISSN-L)
- 1900-5180
- OpenAlex
- W2765292590
- Cited by
- 70
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 46.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- es
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Revista de Estudios Sociales (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
- Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin Hochschulschriftenstelle u. Dokumentenserver
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Emotional Labor in Professions
- Keywords
- history of emotions, social neuroscience, history of experience, interdisciplinary research
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