Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern and
Contemporary Thought Ed. by Campe, Rüdiger / Weber, Julia Aims
and Scope What are emotions, where do they originate and how are
they brought into being? While from antiquity to early
modernity, affects or passions were mostly conceived of as
external physiological forces which act upon a passive subject,
modern conceptions generally locate emotions within the subject.
Drawing on the dichotomy of “interiority / exteriority” as a
complex interdependent relationship, they mostly envision
emotions as interior processes. Contemporary conceptions of
emotion from such different fields as human geography, art
history and cognitive sciences recently started to challenge
this notion of internal emotions by developing alternative
descriptions of externalized emotion. This book reevaluates
premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects,
passions and emotion by analyzing various historical
manifestations of the discourse on emotion. Unlike most previous
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