Uncomfortable Situations : Emotion between Science and the Humanities - Daniel M. Gross

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Uncomfortable Situations

Emotion between Science and the Humanities

By: Daniel M. Gross

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Hardcover | 28 August 2017 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was “happily situated” as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask.

Science and the humanities typically offer two different paradigms for thinking about emotion—the first rooted in brain and biology, the second in a social world. With rhetoric as a field guide, Uncomfortable Situations establishes common ground between these two paradigms, focusing on a theory of situated emotion. Daniel M. Gross anchors the argument in Charles Darwin, whose work on emotion has been misunderstood across the disciplines as it has been shoehorned into the perceived science-humanities divide. Then Gross turns to sentimental literature as the single best domain for studying emotional situations. There’s lost composure (Sterne), bearing up (Equiano), environmental hostility (Radcliffe), and feeling mixed (Austen). Rounding out the book, an epilogue written with ecological neuroscientist Stephanie Preston provides a different kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Uncomfortable Situations is a conciliatory work across science and the humanities—a groundbreaking model for future studies.

Industry Reviews

"Gross is the go-to figure if one wants a thinker who refuses to compromise with reductionistic accounts (of the 'Basic Emotions' or 'consilience' varieties), but does not, for all that, refuse dialog. In Uncomfortable Situations he demonstrates convincingly that we can save the richness of texts without ruling out the potential of experimental methods."-- "William M. Reddy, author of The Making of Romantic Love"
"Gross's Uncomfortable Situations is a superlative achievement of interdisciplinary scholarship. Uncompromising in its commitment to the literary and rhetorical humanities, Gross takes on board the latest research on the neuroscience of emotion and situated cognition and puts the two into productive, sometimes uncomfortable dialogue. The result is non-reductionist cognitive literary study of the highest order. It should be read by everyone with an interest in the history of the emotions, in eighteenth-century sentimental and Gothic literature, and in the ecological humanities."-- "Jonathan Kramnick, author of Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson"

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