Emotions : un análisis interdisciplinario de su evolución histórica

Iván Alfonso Pinedo Cantillo, ; Jaime Yáñez Canal,

Synopsis

Although emotions are at the core of who we are, their nature and structure continues to be a broad field of research for different scientific disciplines today. However, like many other topics of current reflection, emotions have a background, a history that should be kept in mind to place the concepts, debates and various theoretical approaches in the cultural framework and traditions of thought that gave rise to them. In this book we take a brief tour of the history of emotions from ancient times to the most recent discussions in the field of studies of the nervous system and the brain, in such a way that the reader can recognize, broadly speaking, the interpretations and original positions that triggered various theoretical understandings around these physical and mental phenomena that make up our existence. In this context, the history of emotions is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses psychology, philosophy, anthropology, neuroscience and other fields of study interested in clarifying the nature and structure of our emotional repertoire.

Keywords: emotions, history, culture

Chapters

  • The philosophical understanding of emotions in antiquity
  • Emotions in medieval christianity
  • The understanding of passions in modernity
  • Emotions in the contemporary era : from Darwin's evolutionary perspective to cognitive theories
  • Feeling is thinking : Magda Arnold's cognitive perspective and the paradigm shift in emotion theories
Las emociones en perspectiva

ISBN-13 (15)

978-958-651-975-5

How to Cite

Pinedo Cantillo, I. A., & Yáñez Canal, J. (2024). Emotions: un análisis interdisciplinario de su evolución histórica. Sello Editorial UNAD. https://doi.org/10.22490/UNAD.9789586519755

Published

September 5, 2024