ABSTRACT
I’m not very clear about what cultural analysis is, but it seems probable to me that a careful account of emotions within what philosophers call “folk psychology” will better serve the purposes of cultural analysis than an account, say, in terms of emotions’ neurological structure or evolutionary history. The account that I will sketch here is an attempt to refine and analyze the concept of emotion that dominates in the ordinary thought and language of daily life in Europe and America. It seems plausible to suppose that cultures rather different from those in Europe and America will have more or less close analogs of our concept of emotion.
