List of illustrations 
Preface and acknowledgments 
The historical economy of emotions: Introduction 
Brussels, 2010: Emotional politics and the politics of emotion – The Economy of emotions: How it works and why it matters – The modern and the pre-modern

Chapter 1. Losing emotions 
Losing emotions in trauma – Losing emotions in psychology and historiography – Losing emotions in the civilising process – Losing emotions in words: acedia and melancholia – Losing the mot-force: honour – Honour as an emotional disposition: internal/external – Honour practices: The duel – The emotional power of duelling – Shaming the coward – Equality and group cohesion – Crimes of honour, now and then – Chastity and family honour – Rape, sex, and national honour – The decline of honour, or its return?

Chapter 2. Gendering emotions 
Rage and insult – Power and self-control – Women’s strength, women’s weakness – Modernity and the natural order – Emotional topographies of gender – Sensibility – Romantic families, passionate politics – Intense emotions versus creative minds – Schools of emotions: the media – Self-help literature – More schooling: armies, peer groups, politics – Collective emotions and charismatic leadership – New emotional profiles and social change – Angry young men, angry young women – Winds of change

Chapter 3. Finding emotions 
Empathy and compassion – Social emotions in 18th-century moral philosophy – Self-love and sympathy – Suffering and pity – Fraternité and the French Revolution – Human rights – Abolitionism and the change in sensibility – Sympathy, lexical – Schopenhauer’s Nächstenliebe versus Nietzsche’s Fernsten-Liebe – Compassion and its shortcomings – Counter-forces and blockades – Suffering, pity and the education of feelings – Modern dilemmas – Humanitarianism and its crises

Emotions lost and found: Conclusions and perspectives 
Notes 
Index of names