Habitus in Habitat I- Emotion and Motion : Emotion and Motion

What is the relationship between habits and emotions? What is the role of the embodiment of emotions in a cultural habitat? What is the role of the environment for the formation of emotions and subjectivity? One way to address these questions is through discussing an __emotional habitus__ - a set of habits and behavioral attitudes involving the body that are fundamental to emotional communication. But this set of habits is not independent of context; it takes place within a specific __emotional habitat__ in which other bodies play a crucial role. Together, these constitute the foundation of sociocultural communities, psychologies of emotions and cultural practices - and they have much to contribute to the study of emotions both for cognition and aesthetics. Thus, the challenge of addressing these questions cannot be faced by either the sciences or the humanities alone. At the Berlin-based conference: __Emotion and Motion,__ scholars gathered from various disciplines to broaden perspectives on the interdisciplinary field of embodied habits and embodied emotions. This book offers a new view on the related field of habitus and the embodied mind. Contents 7 SABINE FLACH, DANIEL MARGULIES, JAN SÖFFNER - Introduction 7 9 Socially Shared Emotions 25 ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE - Performing Emotions. How to Conceptualize Emotional Contagion in Performance 25 27 SHAUN GALLAGHER - Movement and Emotion in Joint Attention 41 43 THOMAS FUCHS - Intercorporality. How Embodied Interaction Shapes Mind and Brain 55 57 MARTA BRAUN - Animal Locomotion 69 71 JAN SÖFFNER - On Nostalgia (and Homer) 81 83 Expressivity and Interaction 97 ERIK PORATH - Situation and Motion. The Art of Expression in Fiedler and Freud 97 99 CHRISTINE KIRCHHOFF - Affected by the Other. On Emotion in Psychoanalysis 111 113 BURKHARD MEYER-SICKENDIEK - Shame and Grace. The Paradox of the “Beautiful Soul” in the 18th Century 121 123 ARNO VILLRINGER - The Body and its Representation in the Brain 131 133 The Arts Embodied 141 SUZANNE ANKER AND SABINE FLACH - The Glass Veil 141 143 JOHN M. KROIS - Experiencing Emotion in Depictions. Being Moved without Motion? 159 161 SABINE FLACH - Lament in Contemporary Art 181 183 HEIKE SCHLIE - Excentric Crucifixions circa 1500. On the Invention of Emotional Resonance in Painting and the Theories of Transferring Depicted Emotions to the Beholder 207 209 BARBARA LARSON - Through Stained Glass. Abstraction and Embodiment in Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Circles 227 229 JIN HYUN KIM - Towards Embodiment-Based Research on Musical Expressiveness 245 247 What is the relationship between habits and emotions? What is the role of the embodiment of emotions in a cultural habitat? What is the role of the environment for the formation of emotions and subjectivity?
One way to address these questions is through discussing an emotional habitus – a set of habits and behavioral attitudes involving the body that are fundamental to emotional communication. But this set of habits is not independent of context; it takes place within a specific emotional habitat in which other bodies play a crucial role. Together, these constitute the foundation of sociocultural communities, psychologies of emotions and cultural practices – and they have much to contribute to the study of emotions both for cognition and aesthetics. Thus, the challenge of addressing these questions cannot be faced by either the sciences or the humanities alone.
At the Berlin-based conference: Emotion and Motion, scholars gathered from various disciplines to broaden perspectives on the interdisciplinary field of embodied habits and embodied emotions. This book offers a new view on the related field of habitus and the embodied mind.