Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)Rational

Introduction Why Emotions, Why Now? Modernity and Its Discontents Reason Versus Emotion? Biology Versus Society? Experiencing Emotions The Lived Body Desire, Excess and the Transgression of Corporeal Boundaries Gender and the Transformation of Intimacy A 'Stalled Revolution'? 'Manufactured' Emotions? The '(un)managed Heart' Revisited Conclusions