Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)rational

Abstract

This critical account of the resurgence of emotions in social theory draws on a wide range of sources, both classical and contemporary to examine this once marginalised topic. 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 intimacy: a 'stalled revolution'? -- 'Manufactured' emotions?: the (un)managed heart' revisited -- Conclusion -- Index.