Matters of the Heart

Auteur: Bound Alberti, Fay (Senior Research Fellow, History Department, Queen Mary University of London)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body, but it is the brain that is now commonly associated with emotion. Why then do emotional meanings of the heart linger? Matters of the Heart traces how emotions have been understood historically, addressing the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion.

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The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body, but it is the brain that is now commonly associated with emotion. Why then do emotional meanings of the heart linger? Matters of the Heart traces how emotions have been understood historically, addressing the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion.
ISBN / EAN 9780199540976
Auteur Bound Alberti, Fay (Senior Research Fellow, History Department, Queen Mary University of London)
Editeur Oxford University Press