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Smith, Tiffany Watt
An encyclopedic exploration of 154 emotions from throughout history and around the world, examining both universal and culturally-specific feelings through historical, scientific, and philosophical lenses. The work combines neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cultural history to understand how humans experience and name their emotional lives.
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What this book knows
Emotions are culturally constructed stories that vary across history and languages, not universal private feelings we simply have.
self-and-identity
Without context, you only get a 'thin description' of what's going on, not the whole story—and it's this whole story that is what an emotion is.
BHEA-RC-008Joy can be a kind of violence, and always a surprise—it dazzles us into submission, burning in your bosom, sending out sparks into every finger and toe.
BHEA-RC-104If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
BHEA-RC-078mind-and-cognition
Anxiety only became thought of as an affliction a hundred or so years ago—before then some philosophers spoke of fear and anguish as an enriching response to discovering one's own freedom.
BHEA-RC-017Melancholics tended to be lethargic and solitary, drawn toward sedentary and introspective lifestyles—universities were one of their favorite haunts.
BHE00-RC-105belonging
It's always there, pulsing below the surface with its hopefulness tinged with grief—a vague yearning interlaid with resignation and the pleasure of remembering past joys.
BHEA-RC-1476 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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