Fear among the Greeks. Uses and representations from Antiquity to the Christian era.
PURE| N° d'inventaire | 28168 |
| Format | 16.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 358 p., some illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Rennes, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782753591882 |
"History" collection.
Fear is inseparable from our way of experiencing the world, and it determines our way of seeing. A cognitive process and an operator of decision-making choices subject to prevailing social norms, fear is neither semantically defined nor linguistically formed. It requires a complement that anchors it in experience: fear of gods or God, of power, of the other, of war, of death, etc.
The book examines the ways of naming fear, of verbalizing it, of understanding it, of interpreting it; the ways of somatizing it, of dreaming it, of putting it into gestures, of visualizing it in art and of materializing it in objects. Through the study of fear, its mechanisms but also its social and political uses, a whole history of emotions is sketched here within the Greek-speaking worlds, from Antiquity to the 19th century. It is also a history of the societies concerned because, through fear, their relationship to the divine, to authorities, to enemies, to loved ones, to foreigners and compatriots, and finally to oneself, is played out.
"History" collection.
Fear is inseparable from our way of experiencing the world, and it determines our way of seeing. A cognitive process and an operator of decision-making choices subject to prevailing social norms, fear is neither semantically defined nor linguistically formed. It requires a complement that anchors it in experience: fear of gods or God, of power, of the other, of war, of death, etc.
The book examines the ways of naming fear, of verbalizing it, of understanding it, of interpreting it; the ways of somatizing it, of dreaming it, of putting it into gestures, of visualizing it in art and of materializing it in objects. Through the study of fear, its mechanisms but also its social and political uses, a whole history of emotions is sketched here within the Greek-speaking worlds, from Antiquity to the 19th century. It is also a history of the societies concerned because, through fear, their relationship to the divine, to authorities, to enemies, to loved ones, to foreigners and compatriots, and finally to oneself, is played out.