Beschreibung:
The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today.
Introduction Why Emotions, Why Now?Modernity and Its Discontents Reason Versus Emotion?Biology Versus Society?Experiencing EmotionsThe Lived BodyDesire, Excess and the Transgression of Corporeal BoundariesGender and the Transformation of Intimacy A 'Stalled Revolution'?`Manufactured' Emotions? The '(un)managed Heart' RevisitedConclusions