A brief history of emotions - Tiffany Watt Smith

A brief history of emotions - Tiffany Watt Smith

It's sometimes counterintuitive to think that emotions might have a history, because surely everyone across the world and everyone across time has always felt fear and anger and sorrow and joy in the same kind of way.

About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am the 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. I am Reader (emerita) at the School of Arts, Queen Mary University of London, where I taught for fifteen years and directed its Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Key Points • Emotions aren't fixed; how we express and understand them changes across time and cultures. • Some emotions, like boredom or nostalgia, were named and defined in specific historical moments. • Societies have unspoken rules about which emotions are acceptable and when. • Some of the emotions that are going to become more spoken about are emotions to do with our response to the climate crisis.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(100)

The resurgence of civic duties | Simon Reid-Henry

The resurgence of civic duties | Simon Reid-Henry

Civic duties are essentially the ways in which citizens agree to abide by the rules and to contribute to the life of a national society. About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research professor at the Peace ...

16 Mar 14min

What is "prejudice" ? | Jessie Munton

What is "prejudice" ? | Jessie Munton

I think prejudice is best conceptualized as a phenomenon that can be supported by a whole range of mental states that will include beliefs, habits, emotions, and also attentional dispositions. About J...

12 Mar 16min

Global Public Investment | Simon Reid-Henry

Global Public Investment | Simon Reid-Henry

The world today is overburdened with challenges that supersede the boundaries of nation states, and therefore of national governments, to address on their own. About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research ...

9 Mar 18min

On ignorance and forgetting | Jessie Munton

On ignorance and forgetting | Jessie Munton

I'm interested in the beliefs that we're not forming, the evidence that we're not attending to or using, the belief states that perhaps we form. What I think of as negative epistemology is the project...

5 Mar 19min

The empire of democracy | Simon Reid-Henry

The empire of democracy | Simon Reid-Henry

"How do we understand, as it were, our era of democracy, which I argue began really as recently as the 1970s from previous eras, and what is it that is fundamentally at the core of the democracy we li...

2 Mar 19min

The life of the mind | Jessie Munton

The life of the mind | Jessie Munton

On the one hand, we have that sense of really close identification with our minds. On the other hand, we're often surprised at the ways in which they operate. About Jessie Munton "​​I'm an Associate P...

26 Feb 19min

Volcanoes and the origins of life | Tamsin Mather

Volcanoes and the origins of life | Tamsin Mather

We don't really understand how life got going on this planet. There are various candidates for where the first molecules of life might have evolved, and some of those candidates are deeply volcanic. A...

23 Feb 18min

The origin myth of the modern West | Naoíse Mac Sweeney

The origin myth of the modern West | Naoíse Mac Sweeney

We in the modern West still look back to ancient Greece as our imagined origin. We're still obsessed with ancient Greece. About Naoise Mac Sweeney  "I'm Professor of Greek Archaeology at the Universit...

19 Feb 14min

Populært innen Fakta

fastlegen
dine-penger-pengeradet
relasjonspodden-med-dora-thorhallsdottir-kjersti-idem
rss-strid
foreldreradet
treningspodden
rss-orjasater
jakt-og-fiskepodden
rss-bisarr-historie
rss-kunsten-a-leve
hverdagspsyken
takk-og-lov-med-anine-kierulf
mikkels-paskenotter
rss-impressions-2
sinnsyn
rss-var-forste-kaffe
level-up-med-anniken-binz
gravid-uke-for-uke
einar-duenger-bohns-filosofipod
fryktlos