Emotions and Temporalities (Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses)

This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both. Time was often imagined as a movement from the past to the future: the past is gone and the future not yet here. Only present-day subjects could establish relations to other times, recovering history as well as imagining and anticipating the future. In a movement paralleling the emphasis on the porous self, constituted by emotions situated not inside but between subjects, this Element argues for a porous present, which is open to the intervention of ghosts coming from the past and from the future. What needs investigating is the flow between times as much as the creation of boundaries between them, which first banishes the ghosts and then denies their existence. Emotions are the most important way through which subjects situate and understand themselves in time. Cover Title page Copyright page Emotions and Temporalities Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 The Aim of Emotions and Temporalities 1.2 Time and Temporalities 1.3 Global Emotions, Global Temporalities 1.4 Emotions and Stimmung 2 The Presence of the Past 2.1 Ghosts and Jinns 2.2 Stages of Development 2.3 The Golden Age 2.4 Renaissance 2.5 Reform 2.6 Historia magistra vitae? 3 The Presence of the Future 3.1 A Hauntology of the Future? 3.2 Decline, Degeneration, and Decadence 3.3 Utopia and the New Man 3.4 Revolution 3.5 Reform and Progress 3.6 Development and Planning 4 Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgments Emotions mediate between the past, the present and the future, allowing ghosts to transcend the boundaries believed to divide times. This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both.