Civilizing Emotions
Author
Oleg Benesch
, Orit Bashkin
, Margrit Pernau
, Christian Bailey
, Rochona Majumdar
, Helge Jordheim
, Jan Ifversen
, Mana Kia
, Angelika C. Messner
, Myoung-Kyu Park
Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.