I’ve been trying to think about the history of emotions recently, so I’ve read a lot of the standard books. There’s Norbert Elias and his now unfashionable “civilising process” (well, unfashionable in Anglophone academia, France is another case). Elias suggests that the story of the emergence of modern European culture is essentially the story of […]

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