Revisiting the History of Emotions An Introduction

In June 2024, the Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, will conclude, and with it a research group that has contributed to the study of emotions history since 2008. In this special issue, the editors provide a brief sketch of the field and its interdisciplinary entanglements, and invite interlocutors from both within the Center and without to illustrate, in six co-written articles and various case studies, the foundational premise of the history of emotions: that feelings are culturally and historically specific, and that they exist in relation to the social world - as complex embedded, embodied, and sensory phenomena.