A Natural History of Human Emotions

By Stuart Walton

Book Overview

Using Charles Darwin's survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton's A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions--fear, anger, disgust, sadness,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802118046
• ISBN13: 9780802118042
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An insightfully informative examination of the history of human emotions

Charles Darwin's survey of emotions serves as a starting point - and a focal point - for Stuart Walton's A Natural History Of Human Emotions, an insightfully informative examination of the history of human emotions, which considers how these emotions have fueled social and political change over time. Human emotion hasn't been a constant in as much as society has changed its rules for expression in both public and private and thus emotional honey has come to be valued while other emotions have risen to the foreground to dominate. Chapters use plenty of historical references from Biblical to modern times to chart these changes.