Author: Daniel M. Gross File Type: pdf Princess Dianas death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today.Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. In Grosss historical analysis of emotion, Aristotle and Hobbess rhetoric show that our passions do not stem from some inherent, universal nature of men and women, but rather are conditioned by power relations and social hierarchies. He follows up with consideration of how political passions are distributed to some people but not to others using the Roman Stoics as a guide. Hume and contemporary theorists like Judith Butler, meanwhile, explain to us how psyches are shaped by power. To supplement his argument, Gross also provides a history and critique of the dominant modern view of emotions, expressed in Darwinism and neurobiology, in which they are considered organic, personal feelings independent of social circumstances.The result is a convincing work that rescues the study of the passions from science and returns it to the humanities and the art of rhetoric.ReviewThe Secret History of Emotion is a masterful revisionist account of therole of passion in the Western tradition.Daniel Gross describes the radical transformation of a public rhetorical conception of emotion into an internalizedpsychological view that has become the generally accepted physiological theory of emotional states.The Secret History of Emotion presents an incisive narrative argument that will surely inspire more reevaluations of our contemporary genealogies of affects.--Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine(Steven Mailloux 20060104)With The Secret History of Emotion, Daniel Gross has achieved what I thought impossible he compresses into these pages a compelling history of emotion from Aristotle to today. His argument that there exists a great tradition of understanding the emotions as a psychosocial phenomenon is cogent, coherent, and interesting from beginning to end. This is a remarkable book.--David Konstan, Brown University(David Konstan 20060104)Daniel Grosss The Secret History of Emotion is a brilliant example of the newest new rhetoric. Gross takes on an uncritical, ahistorical, biologically justified theory of the emotions, and shows how partial and impoverished is such a representation. He offers an exhilaratingly critical intellectual history of the passions in a tightly argued engagement that reveals new possibilities for invention, for political engagement in the present and future. Pointing to the turn from seventeenth-century political rhetoric to eighteenth-century psychology, Grosss argument launches a powerful critique of those who would naturalize the passions, offering instead a historically grounded, critical, theoretically astute, and above all social account of the emotions. His new rhetoric of the passionswith admirable brevity demolishes banal received ideas that limit the imagination of social change.--Page duBois, University of California, San Diego(Page duBois 20060104)Grosss deft and remarkable book should be required reading for neurobiologists and, of course, for humanists of every school. Gross reminds us that emotions are rarely private. Most feelings, rational or irrational, and all expressions of feeling, are obviously and irreducibly social.--Stephen Pender, Times Literary Supplement(Stephen Pender Times Literary Supplement ) From the Inside FlapPrincess Dianas death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today.Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. In Grosss historical analysis of emotion, Aristotle and Hobbess rhetoric show that our passions do not stem from some inherent, universal nature of men and women, but rather are conditioned by power relations and social hierarchies. He follows up with consideration of how political passions are distributed to some people but not to others using the Roman Stoics as a guide. Hume and contemporary theorists like Judith Butler, meanwhile, explain to us how psyches are shaped by power. To supplement his argument, Gross also provides a history and critique of the dominant modern view of emotions, expressed in Darwinism and neurobiology, in which they are considered organic, personal feelings independent of social circumstances.The result is a convincing work that rescues the study of the passions from science and returns it to the humanities and the art of rhetoric.

Author: IRA File Type: pdf A Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army, issued by General Headquarters,1956.CONTENTSChapter Subject1 Our Tradition2 What Is Guerrilla Warfare?3 Guerrilla Strategy4 Tactics of Guerrillas5 Organisation and Arms6 With the People7 Guerrilla Bases8 Guerrilla Attack9 Enemy Tactics10 Guerrilla Defence11 General Techniques12 Battle Notes