In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece (Emotions of the Past) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Douglas Cairns

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0197681808
Pages:	328	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in the two ancient traditions together to explore ways in which cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary investigation might be deployed to advance our understanding of the emotions in these ancient societies, and ultimately, to confront and challenge certain long-standing modern approaches to emotions.

The volume not only highlights the diverse ways in which emotions have been portrayed and discussed in different geographical and cultural contexts, but also interrogates the concepts through which writers and thinkers in the past experienced and thought about the emotions. The book takes emotions not as natural givens, but as aspects of human experience and conceptualization whose significance can be properly assessed only within the practices, discourses, and institutions of particular societies. The volume addresses a wide range of topics, such as equanimity and impassivity in Daoism and Stoic thought  therapies of emotions in Greco-Roman and early Chinese medicine and philosophy  the cultivation of emotions in relation to perception, attention, and appraisal in
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