Emotions across Cultures Ancient China and Greece

It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in...

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Otros Autores: Konstan, David (Editor), Cairns, Douglas, contributor (contributor), Ford, Randolph, contributor (editor), Hua, Yang, contributor, Kirby, John T., contributor, Kiritsi, Stavroula, contributor, Konstan, David, contributor, Konstan, David, editor, Lu, Zhao, contributor, Nylan, Michael, contributor, Virág, Curie, contributor, Wilson, Trenton, contributor, Zhou, Yiqun, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Berlin ; Boston : [2022]
Colección:Roma Sinica
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675625806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • You are What Eats at You: Anxiety in Medieval Chinese Divinatory and Medical Manuals
  • Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle
  • A Brief History of Daring
  • Anger as an Ethnographic Trope: Changing Views from Aristotle to Seneca
  • Hatred and Revenge in Ancient China During the Qin and Han (221 B.C.-220 A.D.): The Expression of Emotions and the Conflict between Ritual and Law
  • Tragic Emotions – Then and Now
  • Analyzing the Emotions across Three Ancient Cultures: Greece, India, China
  • Gender, Social Hierarchies, and Negative Emotions in Liu Xiang’s Biographies of Women
  • Emotions, Measurement and the Technê of Practical Wisdom in Xúnzǐ’s Ethical Theory
  • Contributors
  • Index