Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, this volume presents a broad range of studies on a variety of emotions, considering the ways in which they are manifested and folded into our cultural and social lives.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research is concerned with topics such as crime, utopia, ethics, death and dying, palliative care, qualitative methods and social theory. His recent publications include Emotions, Everyday Life and Sociology, Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life, Postmortal Society, The Interactionist Imagination and The Age of Spectacular Death.

Preface and acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction Emotions, society and the emotionalisation of society

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 1 Happiness

- Emotion, critique and the future

Jordan McKenzie

Chapter 2 Empathy

- Putting yourself in someone else's shoes

Natalia Ruiz-Junco

Chapter 3 Freedom

- Feeling free in an (un)free world

Gunnar Colbjørnsen Aakvaag and Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 4 Desire

- The pursuit of physical, psychological, interpersonal (and sexual) pleasure

Cheryl Harasymchuk, Pamela C. Regan and Susan Sprecher

Chapter 5 Jealousy

- Exploring the 'green-eyed monster'

Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Inger Glavind Bo

Chapter 6 Insecurity

- An enduring feeling of self-threat

Valérie de Courville Nicol

Chapter 7 Guilt

- Identity management in response to illegitimate social behaviour

Nobuhiko Goto and Mark A. Ferguson

Chapter 8 Disgust

- Reflections on the nauseating feeling of revulsion and repulsion

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 9 Humiliation

- The forgotten emotion

Bettina Muenster

Chapter 10 Pain

- From physical pain to social suffering

Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Inger Glavind Bo and Vibeke Graven

Chapter 11 Despair

- Contemplating the abyss

Rowena Ann Pecchenino

Chapter 12 Unemotionality

- Absence, emptiness and affective insensitivity

Tom Roberts

Index