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Gefühlswissen. Eine lexikalische Spurensuche in der Moderne

This chapter forms part of the first cultural history of how emotions were defined and discussed in German, French, and English encyclopaedias. It analyses the discussion of social emotions in British and German encyclopaedia since the 18th century. It considers which forms of community were said to cultivate the ideal social emotions, such as civil society groupings in the eighteenth century and national communities in the nineteenth. It highlights how various types of social formation were said to produce harmful group emotions: in societies beyond Europe not deemed to be civilized, but also among urbanized and politicized masses within Europe.