Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe
Margrit Pernau, Helge Jordheim, Orit Bashkin, Christian Bailey, Oleg Benesch, Jan Ifversen, Mana Kia, Rochona Majumdar, Angelika C. Messner, Myoung-kyu Park, Emmanuelle Saada, Mohinder Singh, and Einar Wigen
Abstract
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where this book intervenes, tracing the history of the concepts and thus adding a level of self-reflexivity to the present debates. Unlike former histories of these concepts, the book chooses a global perspective, and highlights the role of civility and civilization in the creation of a new and hierarchized global order in the era of high imperialism and its entangle ... More
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where this book intervenes, tracing the history of the concepts and thus adding a level of self-reflexivity to the present debates. Unlike former histories of these concepts, the book chooses a global perspective, and highlights the role of civility and civilization in the creation of a new and hierarchized global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilizing process. the book brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilizing process. Emotions needed to be actively civilized, but they were also seen as an asset, in order to civilize peoples and societies.
Keywords:
civility,
civilization,
global history,
history of concepts,
history of emotions,
imperialism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198745532 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198745532.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Margrit Pernau, author
Senior Researcher at the Center of the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Helge Jordheim, author
Professor of Cultural History, University of Oslo
Orit Bashkin, author
Professor of modern Arab history, University of Chicago
Christian Bailey, author
Lecturer in History, The Open University
Oleg Benesch, author
Anniversary Research Lecturer, Department of History, University of York
Jan Ifversen, author
Vice dean, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University
Mana Kia, author
Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
Rochona Majumdar, author
Associate Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Angelika C. Messner, author
Director of the China Center, Kiel University
Myoung-kyu Park, author
Institute for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS), Seoul National University
Emmanuelle Saada, author
Associate professor in the departments of French and History, Columbia University
Mohinder Singh, author
Assistant Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, School of International Studies, JNU, New Dehli
Einar Wigen, author
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Culture and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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