Science and Emotions After 1945 - A Transatlantic Perspective

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. This book chronicles the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science.

About the author

Frank Biess is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. He lives in California. Daniel M. Gross is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to Modern Brain Science. He lives in California.

Summary

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. This book chronicles the curious resurgence of emotion studies and show that it was fueled by two very different sources: social movements of the 1960s and brain science.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Biess, Frank Gross Biess
• Assisted by: Frank Biess (Editor), Biess Frank (Editor), Daniel M. Gross (Editor), Gross Daniel M. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226126340
• ISBN: 978-0-226-12634-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Psychology: emotions, Neurosciences, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)