Includes bibliographical references and index.

Humanists and the experimental study of emotion / William M. Reddy -- "Both of us disgusted in my insula" : mirror neuron theory and emotional empathy / Ruth Leys -- Emotion science and the heart of a two-cultures problem / Daniel M. Gross and Stephanie Preston -- What is an excitement? / Otniel E. Dror -- The science of pain and pleasure in the shadow of the Holocaust / Cathy Gere -- Oncomotions : experience and debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945 / Bettina Hitzer -- The concept of panic : military psychiatry and emotional preparation for nuclear war in postwar West Germany / Frank Biess -- Preventing the inevitable : military psychiatry and the origins of limited tours of duty in the US Army during World War II / Rebecca Jo Plant -- Feeling for the protest faster : how the self-starving body influences social movements and global medical ethics / Nayan B. Shah -- Across different cultures' emotions in science during the early twentieth century / Uffa Jensen -- Decolonizing emotion : the management of feeling in the new world order / Jordanna Bailkin -- Passions, preferences, and animal spirits : how does homo oeconomicus cope with emotions? / Ute Frevert -- The transatlantic element in the sociology of emotions / Helena Flam -- Feminist theories and the science of emotion / Catherine Lutz -- Affect, trauma, and daily life : transatlantic legal and medical responses to bullying and intimidation / Roddey Reid -- Coda, on historiography erasures : writing history about Holocaust trauma / Carolyn J. Dean.

This volume seeks to provide greater historical depth to the current fascination with emotions across a wide range of academic disciplines. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent (1990s and 2000s) neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate - but instead consolidated - the emotional turn by clearing the ground for a range of work on the emotions, now unencumbered by the post-war stigma of irrationalism. Emotion studies in the social sciences and even in the humanities now can work around the postwar binaries of reason vs. emotion, rationality vs. irrationalism.

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