{"id":50123,"date":"2025-12-03T22:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50123"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:52:40","slug":"debate-the-history-of-emotions-in-times-of-crisis-on-positive-and-negative-emotions-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50123","title":{"rendered":"Debate: Good Feelings \u2013 The History of Emotions in Times of Crisis; On Positive and Negative Emotions in US History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Good Feelings \u2013 The History of Emotions in Times of Crisis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future seems to be filled with ominous signs at the moment. Wars, catastrophes, and rapidly changing world politics cause fears and suffering. Negative emotions seem to constantly accompany us in our daily lives, and influence our behavior. The events of the recent past, as well as the expectations for the coming years, affect many of us historians in our professional work as well as in our professional identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H-Soz-Kult, 02.12.2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/debate\/id\/fddebate-158396\">https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/debate\/id\/fddebate-158396<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>On Positive and Negative Emotions in US History<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spring of 2025, Elon Musk declared, \u201cThe fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.\u201d (\u2026) This turn on empathy is both alarming and surprising. The term is a relatively new one in English, having only entered the language in the early twentieth century. In the intervening years its meaning evolved considerably, but it has come to denote the ability \u201cto grasp another\u2019s emotions.\u201d Historian Susan Lanzoni has traced its history, showing how, in the decades after World War II, Americans came to strongly embrace empathy, believing that it was an essential tool for social harmony, civil rights, equality, and progress. (\u2026) This growing cultural and political divide over empathy demonstrates how quickly the valence of a feeling can change, and how contested such transformations are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H-Soz-Kult, 02.12.2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/debate\/id\/fddebate-158397\">https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/debate\/id\/fddebate-158397<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-rasprave"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53443,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53443","url_meta":{"origin":50123,"position":0},"title":"The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Gis\u00e8le Sapiro The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues. 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