{"product_id":"the-secret-history-of-emotion-from-aristotles-rhetoric-to-modern-brain-science","title":"The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrincess Dianas death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person  more often than not  is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle  The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today.  Through a radical rereading of Aristotle  Seneca  Thomas Hobbes  Sarah Fielding  and Judith Butler  among others  Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. In Grosss historical analysis of emotion  Aristotle and Hobbess rhetoric show that our passions do not stem from some inherent  universal nature of men and women  but rather are conditioned by power relations and social hierarchies. He follows up with consideration of how political passions are distributed to some people but not to others using the Roman Stoics as a guide. Hume and contemporary theorists like Judith Butler  meanwhile  explain to us how psyches are shaped by power. To supplement his argument  Gross also provides a history and critique of the dominant modern view of emotions  expressed in Darwinism and neurobiology  in which they are considered organic  personal feelings independent of social circumstances.  The result is a convincing work that rescues the study of the passions from science and returns it to the humanities and the art of rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953084231733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226309800","price":23.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226309804.jpg?v=1770197476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-history-of-emotion-from-aristotles-rhetoric-to-modern-brain-science","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}