George Herbert Mead e Norbert Elias. Un dialogo a partire dalle emozioni.

Abstract

The paper relates Elias' thought to Mead's, starting from the embodied dimension of emotions. The approach of the two authors to emotions is affected by a conception of society as deeply intertwined with biological and somatic aspects. Rediscovering and enhancing these aspects is configured as a radical challenge to the disciplinary barriers with which such topics are traditionally addressed. This allows to relate the thought of the two authors within a theoretical framework that can shed light on the embodied aspects of emotional action.

Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach

“…Pragmatism has inspired many perspectives in the sociology of emotions, both directly (Bruni, 2019;Denzin, 2017;Katz,1999;Scott, 2021;Shott, 1979) and indirectly (Burkitt, 2012;Holmes, 2010;Scheff, 2003). Pragmatism, once mistakenly labeled as solipsist and subjectivist, has been enthusiastically rediscovered through a relational and affective lens, while being supported by the ideas of other thinkers, such as Bourdieu (Crossley, 2013;Emirbayer & Goldberg, 2005), Merleau-Ponty (Gallagher, 2017), Elias (Lampredi, 2023;Shalin, 2020), Simmel (Kusch, 2019), and many others. However, nowadays there are good reasons to recognize in affective rupture the unexplored originality of such an approach.…”