A crucial period for the birth of modernity, France's 'long eighteenth century' (c. 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. IThinking About Tears reveals another side to a period often called 'the age of reason'.
A crucial period for the birth of modernity, France's 'long eighteenth century' (c. 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. IThinking About Tears reveals another side to a period often called 'the age of reason'.
Marco Menin is an associate professor in history of philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy. His studies focus on the history of sensibility and emotion in the French eighteenth century, with particular attention to the synergy between philosophical, literary, and medical thought. He is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Study Centre 'Metamorphose de Lumières' at the University of Turin-University of Lyon.
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Introduction: Thinking about Tears Part One: The Passion of Tears 1: From Heaven to Earth: Horizontal and Vertical Tears 2: From the Man without Passions to the Crying Hero 3: Tears and Humours 4: The Tears of the Soul Part Two: The Weeping Century: The Rise of Sensibility 5: Physical and Moral Tears 6: The 'homme sensible' 7: The Pedagogy of Tears 8: The Tears of the Revolution Part Three: Rivers of Tears and Drought: From Sensibility to 'sensiblerie' 9: Sentimental Onanism and the De-moralization of Crying 10: Pathological Tears 11: The Strategy of Crying Conclusion
Introduction: Thinking about Tears Part One: The Passion of Tears 1: From Heaven to Earth: Horizontal and Vertical Tears 2: From the Man without Passions to the Crying Hero 3: Tears and Humours 4: The Tears of the Soul Part Two: The Weeping Century: The Rise of Sensibility 5: Physical and Moral Tears 6: The 'homme sensible' 7: The Pedagogy of Tears 8: The Tears of the Revolution Part Three: Rivers of Tears and Drought: From Sensibility to 'sensiblerie' 9: Sentimental Onanism and the De-moralization of Crying 10: Pathological Tears 11: The Strategy of Crying Conclusion
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