Voici le dernier petit opus de Rob Boddice, co-écrit avec Mark Smith,
un historien des sens bien connu, où les deux auteurs lancent un véritable manifeste pour l’étude de l’expérience, qui doit inclure à la fois les émotions, les sens et les expériences cognitives, pour en finir avec les études compartimentées de ces trois domaines, autant de composantes de l’expérience humaine au quotidien.

Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The Element outlines the deep if largely unacknowledged genealogy of historical writing insisting on a braided history of emotions and the senses; explains why recent historical treatments have sometimes profitably but nonetheless unhelpfully segregated the emotions from the senses; and makes a compelling case for the heuristic and interpretive dividends of bringing emotions and sensory history into conversation. Ultimately, we envisage a new way of understanding historical lived experience generally, as a mutable product of a situated world-brain-body dynamic. Such a project necessarily points us towards new interdisciplinary engagement and collaboration, especially with social neuroscience. Unpicking some commonly held assumptions about affective and sensory experience, we re-imagine the human being as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.

• • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884952
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Online publication date: September 2020
  • Online ISBN: 9781108884952

 

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