Emotion and Social Theory - Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects, and critically comments upon, the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory.

List of contents

Introduction
Why Emotions, Why Now?
Modernity and Its Discontents
Reason Versus Emotion?
Biology Versus Society?
Experiencing Emotions
The Lived Body
Desire, Excess and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries
Gender and the Transformation of Intimacy
A ¿Stalled Revolution¿?
`Manufactured¿ Emotions?
The ¿(un)managed Heart¿ Revisited
Conclusions

About the author

Simon Williams is Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Sociology, University of Warwick

Summary

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects, and critically comments upon, the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Williams, Simon J. Williams, Simon Johnson Williams, Williams Simon Johnson
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2000
• EAN: 9780761956297
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5629-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social Theory;Sociology of the Body