Riou, Jeanne
Anthropology of Connection

Perception and Its Emotional Undertones in German Philosophical Discourse from 1880-1930.

Highlighting the ontological role of emotional investment, this book sets out to show that historical patterns are best understood in relation to ideas with an emotional undercurrent. - Examining perception in the discourses of 1900, this study aims to uncover some of the less apparent emotional undercurrents of scientific theories of understanding. Connections are seen as implicit, but nonetheless important discursive forces. In looking at perception at a time when it was under re-definition as the humanities faced dominance of the natural sciences in the 19th century, this study is concerned with a figure that is always emotionally invested. Its hypothesis is that the sometimes hidden 'investment' plays an ontological role that we cannot see if we hold that words and ideas simply emerge in a historical continuity. The opposite is the case: historical patterns are best understood in relation to ideas with an emotional undercurrent, not without this, or despite it. This book sets out to show this in relation to the anthropology of connection and vis-à-vis theories of perception from approximately 1880-1930. X,311 Seiten, broschiert (Königshausen & Neumann 2014) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint