Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational / Edition 1

by Simon Johnson Williams

Overview

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.

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the world. He reflects and comments upon the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory, and explains what is important in current thinking about emotions. In his doing so, readers are provided with a critical assessment of various positions within the field, including the strengths and weaknesses of poststructuralism and postmodernism for examinin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761956280
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/27/2001
Series:	Cultural Studies Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table 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