Facing Fear

The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15359-9
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past. From the eighteenth-century Peruvian highlands and the California borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary Russia and India, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotion. The volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings. Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further research. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alexander Etkind, Lisbeth Haas, Andreas Killen, David Lederer, Melani McAlister, Ronald Schechter, Marla Stone, Ravi Sundaram, and Charles Walker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laffan, Michael

Weiss, Max

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions

Max Weiss 1
1 Fear of the Thirty Years War

David Lederer 10
2 Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment

Ronald Schechter 31
3 "When Fear Rather than Reason Dominates": Priests behind

the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780?83)

Charles Walker 54
4 Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands

Lisbeth Haas 74
5 Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment

Andreas Killen 91
6 Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear

Marla Stone 114
7 The Persecuted Body: Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and

the Politics of Fear

Melani McAlister 133
8 Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi

Ravi Sundaram 162
9 Fear of the Past: Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror

Alexander Etkind 183
10 White Hajjis: Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present

Michael Laffan 202
Notes 217
Contributors 265
Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Laffan is professor of history at Princeton University. His books include "The Makings of Indonesian Islam" (Princeton). Max Weiss is assistant professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of "In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon".