Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Emotions across Cultures

Ancient China and Greece

Edited by: David Konstan

Volume 3 in the series Roma Sinica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110784312

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It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call “hope.” Daring not to do, or “undaring,” was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.

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Davind Konstan, Department of Classics, New York University, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Comparing Emotions Historically David Konstan Open Access Download PDF	1
You are What Eats at You: Anxiety in Medieval Chinese Divinatory and Medical Manuals Zhao Lu Open Access Download PDF	19
Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle Douglas Cairns Open Access Download PDF	41
A Brief History of Daring Michael Nylan and Trenton Wilson Open Access Download PDF	75
Anger as an Ethnographic Trope: Changing Views from Aristotle to Seneca Randolph Ford Open Access Download PDF	143
Hatred and Revenge in Ancient China During the Qin and Han (221 B.C.-220 A.D.): The Expression of Emotions and the Conflict between Ritual and Law Yang Hua Open Access Download PDF	169
Tragic Emotions – Then and Now Stavroula Kiritsi Open Access Download PDF	193
Analyzing the Emotions across Three Ancient Cultures: Greece, India, China John T. Kirby Open Access Download PDF	211
Gender, Social Hierarchies, and Negative Emotions in Liu Xiang’s Biographies of Women Yiqun Zhou Open Access Download PDF	279
Emotions, Measurement and the Technê of Practical Wisdom in Xúnzǐ’s Ethical Theory Curie Virág Open Access Download PDF	303
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	327
Index Open Access Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, Philosophers, Ancient and Modern Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 334
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Antiquity; Greece; emotions; China

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110784312

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110779905