Letteratura e società. La sociologia e il misterioso mondo delle emozioni

Literature and society. Sociology and the mysterious world of emotions The complex world of emotions has always been at the center of the in- terest of sociology which, in different ways, has reflected on the nature and emotional strength of social phenomena. In an important book enti- tled Emotions through Literature. Fictional narratives. Society and emo- tional self (Routdlege, 2020) Mariano Longo reconstructs the complex relationship between sociology, emotions and literature, discovering that emotions are an essential component of social life and that the sociology of emotion in not just a particular way of analyzing and interpreting emo- tions, but it is also a way of understanding society.