"Despite the pervasive feeling that much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phoney, contemporary cultural critics and observers have paid little attention to the traditional philosophical criticism of inauthentic culture that began with …
1. Genealogies of emotions, intimacy and desire : theories of changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity -- 2. Foucault's genealogy of sexuality : Foucault, sex and power -- 3. Narratives of romantic love -- 4. "Mapping intimacy through sex in twentieth…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What's Love Got to Do with It? -- 1 Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacy and Desire: Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity -- 2 Foucault's Genealogy o…
Genealogies of Emotions
by Brooks, Ann
fromRoutledge studies in social and political thought
"Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characteriz…