2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0687-4463-01 | The History of Emotions: Case Studies from South Asia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The seminar examines the understanding and representation of emotions in an array of Indian classical Sanskrit literary and philosophical works, and brings them into conversation with contemporary history and philosophy of emotions. Looking at a variety of case studies – in texts from the epics up to early modernity – we will discuss the extent by which emotions can be seen as culturally and socially structured, their political and religious function, and their role in the creation of subjectivity.