Emotions: a magnificent history of mankind. R. Fert-Godbeher

A large -scale and excitingly written study of how emotions influenced the course of human history and how our perception of emotions evolved with us.

We, people, like to think about ourselves as intelligent creatures, which as a form They relied on intelligence to survive. But many of the most important moments in our history had nothing to do with cold facts, but were related to feelings.

In this book, Dr. Richard Fert-Godbeher talks about emotions in the context of different eras and different cultures- Ancient Greece, Ghana, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, the USA, China and Russia. Based on psychology, neurobiology, philosophy, art and the history of religion, it gives an exhaustive idea of ​​this aspect of being, which is rarely taken into account in humanitarian research.

In each of the chapters, the author considers certain historical periods and regions, Making, thus, a complete picture of how emotions formed the modern world in all its diversity. With examples, he demonstrates how our understanding and experience of emotions changed over time and how our ideas about feelings - along with the feelings themselves - largely formed us the world in which we live.

The book was translated by 20 Languages.

for whom this book is

- for those who are interested in emotional intelligence and its evolution in our history.

- for those who are interested, How emotions affect our life and even the course of history.

- for those who are fond of psychology, neurobiology, art, history of religion, philosophy, the history of human development.