Sentiments, emotions: Possibilities and limits of cultural history
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Rolf Petri
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/40
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 75-92 File size 169 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2012-040006
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The first part of the essay tries to elaborate a reasonable itemisation of the three main streams in the history of emotions: that of individual emotions, the study of the role that emotions have in historical processes, and the reflection about the influence of emotions on history writing. The second part is devoted to the methodological and theoretical status of the study of past emotions. The author criticises the definition of emotions as merely cultural phenomena. He argues in favour to a cross-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, and maintains that cultural history of emotions should be able to deconstruct its own history and contextualise historically the very paradigms of "culture" and "emotion".
Keywords: Cultural History, History of Emotions, History of Historiography, Feelings, Sentiments, Limits
Rolf Petri, Sentimenti, emozioni. Potenzialità e limiti della storia culturale in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 40/2012, pp 75-92, DOI: 10.3280/MER2012-040006