Emozioni naturalmente culturali. Un recupero dell’eredità pragmatista

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ID21871965
AuthorsRoberta Dreon (0000-0001-5531-8970), Matteo Santarelli (0000-0002-5237-0586)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue24
Pages61-72
Publication date2021-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocietàMutamentoPolitica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2038-3150 • E-ISSN: 2038-3150
PublisherFirenze University Press (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.36253/smp-13224
OpenAlexW3214073513
LanguageIT
Citations received3
References cited15

This article aims to show how the ideas of pragmatists can dialogue with some approaches in the domain of sociology of emotions, integrating some possible shortcomings on the theoretical level. Differently from Arlie Hochschild’s dramaturgical approach and Randal Collins’ ritual approach to emotions, the pragmatists’ non-reductionist naturalism, which advocates the thesis of the continuity between organic and social, nature and culture, offers a solid conceptual framework to support a theory of emotions alternative to constructivism. The thesis of the pragmatists is that there is no pure, pre-social level of emotions, precisely because emotions are themselves the tools of social interaction, through which conducts regulate each other in a cooperative and/or conflictual sense. John Dewey’s and George Herbert Mead’s approach to emotions therefore allows us to address the question of the ways in which the social dimension of the human environment affects the configuration of emotions. Moreover, their approach helps us to abandon the dichotomy between feeling and expressing that seems to plague much of the sociology of emotions

Epistemology · Feeling · Naturalism · Pragmatism · Reductionism · Sociology · Diverse academic and cultural studies · Educational and Social Studies · Italian Literature and Culture · Mathematics · Philosophy

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