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Vom plötzlichen Verlangen jemanden zu küssen: Das Buch der Gefühle
Tiffany Watt Smith
3.8 AVERAGE
34 reviews for:
Vom plötzlichen Verlangen jemanden zu küssen: Das Buch der Gefühle
Tiffany Watt Smith
3.8 AVERAGE
Made for an excellent self-help book, despite resisting being categorised as such. It's more like a lengthy research essay on the history of emotions. I happened to start on this book right when I needed a nudge to examine my own emotions more closely, and it was an entertaining read (admittedly, I mostly mean to say that it was a good distraction from brooding); educational and threaded through with the author's wry sense of humour. The liberal referencing to pop culture helped, creating more appeal than anecdotes from anonymous strangers who could conceivably be entirely fictional could have achieved. Why would this book work as self-help? (I'm sorry.) The author briefly details how certain emotions have been pathologised, while reinforcing the suggestion that all emotions, even the ones often considered unsavory, should be experienced, examined, and celebrated. There is nothing more reassuring than to be reminded that all emotions are universal, and valid. Even if there isn't a word for what you're feeling in English, some culture, somewhere, probably has a name for it. I'm only mildly disappointed that the book doesn't actually contain an exhaustive list of every! feeling! ever!, though it's more than adequate as an introduction to the study of emotions in human beings.
3.75 stars :]
my 100th read book logged onto goodreads!!
I'm pretty sure this is my first non fic book that i ever finished reading, so i dont know how to rate this. i mean yeah it does its job, it gave me a list of 150+ emotions like it promised. it gave me the history of the emotion and sometimes the history of the word itself, it referenced other media a lot which was really nice. sometimes the author went into telling a story / trying to make a metaphor for the emotion and ended up never properly defining the emotion and that annoyed me sm.
my 100th read book logged onto goodreads!!
I'm pretty sure this is my first non fic book that i ever finished reading, so i dont know how to rate this. i mean yeah it does its job, it gave me a list of 150+ emotions like it promised. it gave me the history of the emotion and sometimes the history of the word itself, it referenced other media a lot which was really nice. sometimes the author went into telling a story / trying to make a metaphor for the emotion and ended up never properly defining the emotion and that annoyed me sm.
Cute. Helpful for people who struggle to find words.
May also be helpful for authors.
May also be helpful for authors.
The history of words is endlessly fascinating - of emotional words, especially so.
I bought this book from a display chosen to reflect Van Gogh's interests. He said 'Reading books is like looking at paintings, one must find that which is beautiful.'
Tiffany Watt Smith defines more than 150 distinct emotions with great delight. She also explains their cultural contexts and shifts in meaning over time. It seems there are emotions we'd be ashamed to admit now which were once quite acceptable. The book has a wonderful mix of intriguing facts, storytelling, word-play and jokes. The author prods at current western assumptions: there are feelings we recognise for which English-speakers have no words, the emotional weather is not only individual but shared and even communal, and there are more desirable states than happy. It's okay to be umpty for a while, and why not enjoy ilinx?
Some of the emotions described are so beautiful I felt proud to be human, and if that's not reason enough to read it, I don't what is.
Tiffany Watt Smith defines more than 150 distinct emotions with great delight. She also explains their cultural contexts and shifts in meaning over time. It seems there are emotions we'd be ashamed to admit now which were once quite acceptable. The book has a wonderful mix of intriguing facts, storytelling, word-play and jokes. The author prods at current western assumptions: there are feelings we recognise for which English-speakers have no words, the emotional weather is not only individual but shared and even communal, and there are more desirable states than happy. It's okay to be umpty for a while, and why not enjoy ilinx?
Some of the emotions described are so beautiful I felt proud to be human, and if that's not reason enough to read it, I don't what is.
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
informative
fast-paced
A great book. I would have liked more concentration on non English words but still a great book.
"And how delightful other people's emotions were! - Much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him."
This book carries a lot of sentimental value for me. I bought it on a trip to South America in 2017. More precisely, a small bookstore in Ecuador.
I've always been a big thinker with a lot of questions, especially when it came to human beings in general. In this book, T. Watt Smith describes several emotions, ranging from emotions never heard of to the so-called big emotions we're mostly familiar with. It shows the complexity we carry, the range of our emotional spectrum. If anything, it proves how we're essentially all the same.
This book really makes you reflect on yourself and your inner being. I enjoyed the historical and cultural context given to a lot of the emotions, it's really quite fascinating.
We're quite complex creatures and I guess I'll continue to ask a lot of questions. We'll never know everything, even - and especially - about ourselves.
This book carries a lot of sentimental value for me. I bought it on a trip to South America in 2017. More precisely, a small bookstore in Ecuador.
I've always been a big thinker with a lot of questions, especially when it came to human beings in general. In this book, T. Watt Smith describes several emotions, ranging from emotions never heard of to the so-called big emotions we're mostly familiar with. It shows the complexity we carry, the range of our emotional spectrum. If anything, it proves how we're essentially all the same.
This book really makes you reflect on yourself and your inner being. I enjoyed the historical and cultural context given to a lot of the emotions, it's really quite fascinating.
We're quite complex creatures and I guess I'll continue to ask a lot of questions. We'll never know everything, even - and especially - about ourselves.