In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwinists defined and employed it. As Boddice shows, their interpretations of Darwin's ideas sparked a...

In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwinists defined and employed it. As Boddice shows, their interpretations of Darwin's ideas sparked a...

The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry. -- .

Haben unsere Vorfahren genauso gefühlt wie wir? Und was bedeutet es für die Geschichtsschreibung, Gefühle, Leidenschaften, Stimmungen und Affekte in den Fokus zu rücken? Zum ersten Mal erzählt Rob Boddice von der Macht der Gefühle und erklärt, wie Emotionen Politik und historische Ereignisse von der Antike bis ins 21. Jahrhundert maßgeblich prägten.