Exploring Emotions in Social Life

This volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions from social scientific perspectives. Bringing together scholars from disciplines including sociology psychology anthropology and philosophy it examines emotions including desire empathy freedom happiness hate disgust humiliation guilt unemotionality and despair exploring the main facets of these emotions and considering the ways in which they are manifested and folded into our cultural and social lives. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in emotion affect and contemporary culture.