Lorenzo Bruni

The main aim of this essay is to show how the social dimension and the subjective dimension are not two irreconcilable moments in the definition of the peculiar nature of emotions. The hypothesis will be primarily developed by reference to George Herbert Mead’s social theory. The first section shows how Mead’s peculiarity consists precisely in being able to provide, at the same time, both a theoretical-epistemological foothold for problems of a general nature that concern reflection on emotions and a reference that allows the declination of those same problems in purely sociological terms...