Emotions in a Transdisciplinary Light

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• Preface
• 1. The Weakening of Emotions in Modernism: The Case of Svevo (Stefano Calabrese)
• References
• 2. Jealousy in Proust: From Emotion to Evidential Knowledge (Annamaria Contini)
• 1. Literary knowledge and the evidential paradigm
• 2. The emotion of love
• 3. Jealousy and the interpretation of signs
• 4. From signs of love to signs of sensory impressions
• 5. Emotions and the search for the truth
• Notes
• References
• 3. Fear and Civil Society in Spinoza’s Philosophy. Between Theocracy and Republic (Carlo Altini)
• 1. The problem
• 2. Spinoza’s realism: Ontological and political
• 3. The passions in the crowd and in the people: Between reason and power
• 4. Before the contemplative life: The political life of the vulgus and the populus
• Note
• References
• 4. The Paradox of Emotions in the Theater of Jean-Paul Sartre (Barbara Chitussi & Alma Frangipane)
• 1. Acting as coldness
• 2. Unrealization
• 3. All emotive behavior is a comedy
• 4. Kean or the phenomenology of free and impersonal consciousness
• 5. Sartre’s theory of “counter-mystification”
• 6. Emotion and critical distance
• Notes
• References
• 5. Emotions and Narration: The Neurochemistry of the Adolescent Brain (Valentina Conti)
• 1. The dopamine carousel: The grand tour of the adolescent mind
• 2. Narrative immersion: Narratives as emotional activators
• 3. Youth fiction as a diffuser and propulsor of dopamine
• 4. The case study: The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger
• Note
• References
• 6. Will and Its Forms. The Role of the Emotions in Ferdinand Tönnies’s Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Giovanni Cerro)
• 1. The conflict of wills, or the emergence of the emotions
• 2. Pleasure and pain: Ethics between Hobbes and Spinoza
• 3. The forms of essential will
• 4. Emotions and arbitrary will
• 5. Emotions in the crisis of modernity
• References
• 7. Metaphors and the Expression of Emotions: In Support of a Special Relationship (Alice Giuliani)
• 1. Archetypes, metaphors, and emotions: An introductory overview
• 2. Interactive metaphor and expression
• 3. Interaction and emotion: The weight of form
• Notes
• References

Stefano Calabrese and Annamaria Contini (eds.)

Emotions in a
Transdisciplinary Light

Berlin - Bruxelles - Chennai - Lausanne - New York - Oxford

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This publication was created with the help of the Department of Education and Human Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, as part of the FAR 2023 departmental project Linguaggi dell’estetica e filosofia delle emozioni: questioni teoriche e declinazioni educative.

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Names: Calabrese, Stefano editor | Contini, Anamaria editor

Title: Emotions in a transdisciplinary light / edited by Stefano Calabrese and Anamaria Contini.

Description: New York : Peter Lang, [2025] | Series: Transcultural studies, 2509-923X ; vol. 20 | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2025010246 (print) | LCCN 2025010247 (ebook) | ISBN 9783631926512 hardback | ISBN 9783631937655 ebook | ISBN 9783631937662 epub

Subjects: LCSH: Emotions--Social aspects | Emotions--Philosophy | Emotions in literature

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ISSN 2509-923X

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Table of Contents

Preface

Stefano Calabrese

1. The Weakening of Emotions in Modernism: The Case of Svevo

Annamaria Contini

2. Jealousy in Proust: From Emotion to Evidential Knowledge

Carlo Altini

3. Fear and Civil Society in Spinoza’s Philosophy. Between Theocracy and Republic

Barbara Chitussi & Alma Frangipane

4. The Paradox of Emotions in the Theater of Jean-Paul Sartre

Valentina Conti

5. Emotions and Narration: The Neurochemistry of the Adolescent Brain

Giovanni Cerro

6. Will and Its Forms. The Role of the Emotions in Ferdinand Tönnies’s Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

Alice Giuliani

7. Metaphors and the Expression of Emotions: In Support of a Special Relationship

List of Tables

Table 5.1. The seven fundamental emotional systems, according to Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven

Preface

This volume arises from the many activities organized by the Department of Education and Humanities (DESU) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), which has been awarded the title of Department of Excellence by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. It brings together reflections common to a group of professors and researchers within the Department or affiliated with cultural institutions with which DESU customarily collaborates.