Humanity: An Emotional History

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In Humanity: An Emotional History, Walton examines the history of each of our core emotions - fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise and happiness - in turn. For Walton, love and hate (between which there is famously only a thin line), are fundamental feelings that inveigle their way into all the other emotions. And he demonstrates that without the emotions, there would be no human history. This highly original and necessarily idiosyncratic work mixes history, philosophical insight and the latest science to produce a vivid and exuberant account of how emotions have shaped our past.

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"'Reading Stuart Walton's prose is a bit like going on some kind of trip. His erudition is dizzying.' Mail on Sunday"

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Stuart Waltonis author the acclaimed Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication (Hamish Hamilton, 2001).He is also a distinguished, and widely publishedwine-writer.