Talia Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 258829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Talia Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Talia |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1955-6490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The History of Emotions
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction outlines the historical ancestries of our emotions. Emotions are visceral reactions and beliefs regarding the world that could be intimate and private. The history of emotions is plural rather than singular since emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. Emotions can be felt as spontaneous outbursts and are also culturally learned performances. This VSI explores how emotions gain …
The Lion Refugee in Europe
The Lion Refugee in Europe” is a critical race/anti-Blackness fictional counterstory that offers a perspective on the European refugee/immigrant situation. The story follows Asad, a young Somali refugee who ventures to Italy in hopes of gaining political asylum. By centering Asad as the main character, this fictional counterstory is meant to expose the realities experienced by refugees on their passages, specifically those leaving Africa. The lea…
A History of Solitude, by David Vincent
Journal Article A History of Solitude, by David Vincent Get access A History of Solitude, by David Vincent (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020; pp. vii + 341. £25). Thomas Dixon Thomas Dixon Queen Mary University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April 2022, Pages 651–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac056 Published: 03 Mar…
What is the History of Anger a History of
This essay uses the history of emotions to make two arguments - one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term 'anger' refers either to a clearly defined mental state or to a coherent emotional concept. At the same time, it also questions the diagnosis of the present as an 'age of anger'. Constructively, the essay uses the intellectual and cultural a…
Structural interventions and social suffering
Pharmaceutical opioid use among oral and intravenous users in Australia
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
“Emotion”
The word “emotion” has named a psychological category and a subject for systematic enquiry only since the 19th century. Before then, relevant mental states were categorised variously as “appetites,” “passions,” “affections,” or “sentiments.” The word “emotion” has existed in English since the 17th century, originating as a translation of the French émotion, meaning a physical disturbance. It came into much wider use in 18th-century English, often…
Educating the emotions from Gradgrind to Goleman
Charles Dickens famously satirised the rationalism and mechanism of utilitarian educational ideas through the figure of Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times . Even in the nineteenth century there were very few people, in reality, who would have agreed that the education of children should be a matter of purely intellectual, rather than emotional, instruction. The surge of interest in emotional intelligence and emotional literacy since the 1990s has given t…
Revolting Passions
This article looks again at the significance of the shift from theories of passions and affections to a new scientific psychology of “emotions” in the nineteenth century. It recovers religious, moral, medical and political ideas about the pathology of the passions, and situates those ideas among the more differentiated affective typologies of earlier periods, with reference to both secular and theological writers including Seneca, Augustine, Thom…
The Tears of Mr Justice Willes
Sir James Shaw Willes (1814–1872) was a weeping judge, shedding tears into his notebook while hearing evidence and sobbing bitterly when passing the sentence of death. Victorian courtrooms provided a theatrical context for the performance of tears, not only by defendants and the public, but also by judges. Constructing a microhistory of Willes's tears, based on the philosophy, science, medicine and religion of the mid-Victorian period, drawing on…
Full-On Fuller
Emotions
From Passions to Emotions
Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteent…
Scientific atheism as a faith tradition
Victorian Psychology and British Culture, 1850-1880
The Psychology of the Emotions in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Theology, Anti‐Theology and Atheology
The nineteenth‐century transition from talk of passions and affections of the soul to talk of “emotions” in English‐language psychological thought is taken as a case‐study in the secularisation of psychology. This transition is used as an occasion to re‐evaluate the methodologies of John Milbank and Richard Webster, who interpret certain secular scientific accounts as forms of theology or anti‐theology “in disguise”. It is suggested, in the light…
What is the History of Anger a History of
This essay uses the history of emotions to make two arguments - one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term 'anger' refers either to a clearly defined mental state or to a coherent emotional concept. At the same time, it also questions the diagnosis of the present as an 'age of anger'. Constructively, the essay uses the intellectual and cultural a…
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
Educating the emotions from Gradgrind to Goleman
Charles Dickens famously satirised the rationalism and mechanism of utilitarian educational ideas through the figure of Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times . Even in the nineteenth century there were very few people, in reality, who would have agreed that the education of children should be a matter of purely intellectual, rather than emotional, instruction. The surge of interest in emotional intelligence and emotional literacy since the 1990s has given t…
The Tears of Mr Justice Willes
Sir James Shaw Willes (1814–1872) was a weeping judge, shedding tears into his notebook while hearing evidence and sobbing bitterly when passing the sentence of death. Victorian courtrooms provided a theatrical context for the performance of tears, not only by defendants and the public, but also by judges. Constructing a microhistory of Willes's tears, based on the philosophy, science, medicine and religion of the mid-Victorian period, drawing on…
Scientific atheism as a faith tradition
The Psychology of the Emotions in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Theology, Anti‐Theology and Atheology
The nineteenth‐century transition from talk of passions and affections of the soul to talk of “emotions” in English‐language psychological thought is taken as a case‐study in the secularisation of psychology. This transition is used as an occasion to re‐evaluate the methodologies of John Milbank and Richard Webster, who interpret certain secular scientific accounts as forms of theology or anti‐theology “in disguise”. It is suggested, in the light…
The Psychology of the Emotions in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Scientific atheism as a faith tradition
Victorian Psychology and British Culture, 1850-1880
From Passions to Emotions
Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteent…
Emotions
Full-On Fuller
Revolting Passions
This article looks again at the significance of the shift from theories of passions and affections to a new scientific psychology of “emotions” in the nineteenth century. It recovers religious, moral, medical and political ideas about the pathology of the passions, and situates those ideas among the more differentiated affective typologies of earlier periods, with reference to both secular and theological writers including Seneca, Augustine, Thom…
The Tears of Mr Justice Willes
Sir James Shaw Willes (1814–1872) was a weeping judge, shedding tears into his notebook while hearing evidence and sobbing bitterly when passing the sentence of death. Victorian courtrooms provided a theatrical context for the performance of tears, not only by defendants and the public, but also by judges. Constructing a microhistory of Willes's tears, based on the philosophy, science, medicine and religion of the mid-Victorian period, drawing on…
“Emotion”
The word “emotion” has named a psychological category and a subject for systematic enquiry only since the 19th century. Before then, relevant mental states were categorised variously as “appetites,” “passions,” “affections,” or “sentiments.” The word “emotion” has existed in English since the 17th century, originating as a translation of the French émotion, meaning a physical disturbance. It came into much wider use in 18th-century English, often…
Educating the emotions from Gradgrind to Goleman
Charles Dickens famously satirised the rationalism and mechanism of utilitarian educational ideas through the figure of Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times . Even in the nineteenth century there were very few people, in reality, who would have agreed that the education of children should be a matter of purely intellectual, rather than emotional, instruction. The surge of interest in emotional intelligence and emotional literacy since the 1990s has given t…
Conflicting Rights
While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced antitrafficking legislation ostensibly designed to suppress human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Based on empirical research with female sex workers, this article examines the impact of the new law on vulnerability to HIV and other adverse heal…
Pharmaceutical opioid use among oral and intravenous users in Australia
Structural interventions and social suffering
What is the History of Anger a History of
This essay uses the history of emotions to make two arguments - one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term 'anger' refers either to a clearly defined mental state or to a coherent emotional concept. At the same time, it also questions the diagnosis of the present as an 'age of anger'. Constructively, the essay uses the intellectual and cultural a…
A History of Solitude, by David Vincent
Journal Article A History of Solitude, by David Vincent Get access A History of Solitude, by David Vincent (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020; pp. vii + 341. £25). Thomas Dixon Thomas Dixon Queen Mary University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 585, April 2022, Pages 651–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac056 Published: 03 Mar…
The History of Emotions
The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction outlines the historical ancestries of our emotions. Emotions are visceral reactions and beliefs regarding the world that could be intimate and private. The history of emotions is plural rather than singular since emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. Emotions can be felt as spontaneous outbursts and are also culturally learned performances. This VSI explores how emotions gain …
The Lion Refugee in Europe
The Lion Refugee in Europe” is a critical race/anti-Blackness fictional counterstory that offers a perspective on the European refugee/immigrant situation. The story follows Asad, a young Somali refugee who ventures to Italy in hopes of gaining political asylum. By centering Asad as the main character, this fictional counterstory is meant to expose the realities experienced by refugees on their passages, specifically those leaving Africa. The lea…
Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Passions (5 works) · History of Emotions Research (4 works)