At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these words were self-evident. This is where Civilizing Emotions intervenes, tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilization and thus adding a level of self-reflexivity to the present debates. Unlike previous histories, Civilizing Emotions takes a global perspective, highlighting the roles of civility and civilization in the creation of a new and hierarchized global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements with the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the creation of a new global order in the nineteenth century. Civilizing Emotions explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups. The study is a contribution to the history of emotions, to global history, and to the history of concepts, three rapidly developing and innovative research areas which are here being brought together for the first time.
Inhalt
- 1: Helge Jordheim and Margrit Pernau: Introduction
- Europe
- 2: Helge Jordheim: The Nature of Civilization: The Semantics of Civilization and Civility in Scandinavia
- 3: Margrit Pernau: Great Britain: The Creation of an Imperial Global Order
- 4: Emmanuelle Saada: France: Sociability in the Imperial Republic
- 5: Christian Bailey: Germany: Orientalism, Emotional Geographies, and the Re-drawing of Civilizational Trajectories
- The Middle East
- 6: Einar Wigen: The Education of Ottoman Man and the Practising of Orderliness
- 7: Orit Bashkin: Journeys between Civility and Wilderness: Debates on Civilization and Emotions in the Arab Middle East, 1861-1939
- 8: Mana Kia: Moral Refinement and Manhood in Persian
- South Asia
- 9: Margrit Pernau: The Virtuous Individual and Social Reform: Debates among North Indian Urdu Speakers
- 10: Mohinder Singh: Spectres of the West: Negotiating a Civilizational Figure in Hindi
- 11: Rochona Majumdar: From Civilizational Heroism to an Ethic of Universal Humanity: Bengali Discussions of Civility
- East Asia
- 12: Angelika C. Messner: Transforming Chinese Hearts, Minds and Bodies in the Name of Progress, Civility, and Civilization
- 13: Oleg Benesch: Patriotism, Virtue, and the Clash of Civilities in Japanese
- 14: Park Myoungkyu: From Shame to Sympathy: Civilization and Emotion in Korea, 1860-1920
- 15: Jan Ifversen: Afterword