In his 'Descent of Man', Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in civilized society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that progress could be steer…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Emotions, Morals, Practices -- 2 Sympathy for a Devil's Chaplain -- 3 Common Compassion and the Mad Scientist -- 4 Sympathy as Callousness? Physiology and Vivisection -- 5 Sympathy, Liberty, and Compulsion: Vaccina…
Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwinists defined and employed it. As Boddice shows, their interpretations of Darwin's ideas sparked a cacophonous discourse intent on displacing previous notions of sympathy. Scientific …
In his 'Descent of Man', Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in civilized society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that progress could be steer…
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. A…