Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age

by Ashley Frawley

Significant Emotions is a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate and the rhetoric of an increasingly expansive array of social problems. Building on ideas developed in Ashley Frawley's previous book, Semiotics of Happiness, it examines in detail the 'emotional turn' across the social sciences and the broader cultural rise of the 'age of emotion' and its influence on how we talk about and approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350026794
• ISBN13: 9781350026797
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"