Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The ‘Languages of Emotion’ conference was supported by generous awards from the British Academy and the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick. G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art (Berlin Lectures, 1823–29), trans. T. M. Knox, 2 vols, reprt. in German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism, ed. David Simpson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 208–9. 2. Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004). 3. Stanley Cavell, ‘Performative and Passionate Utterance’, in Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 155–91. 4. See Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: joy, sorrow and the feeling brain (London: Vintage, 2004). 5. Edmund Rolls, ‘Précis of The Brain and Emotion’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (2000), pp. 177–233 (177). 6. Rolls, ‘Précis of The Brain and Emotion’, p. 178. 7. Adam Smith, A Theory of Moral Sentiments [1759], ed. Knud Haakonssen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 257. 8. Smith, Moral Sentiments, p. 258. 9. Rolls, ‘Précis of The Brain and Emotion’, p. 178. 10. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste (London: Routledge, 2006), p. 19. 11. Cynthia Freeland, ‘Piercing to our inaccessible, inmost parts: the Sublime in the work of Bill Viola’, in ed. Chris Townsend, The Art of Bill Viola (London: Thames and Hudson, 2004), pp. 24–45 (25). 12. James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: a history of people who have cried in front of paintings (London: Routledge, 2004), p. 13. 13. Elkins, Pictures and Tears, p. 18. 14. Elkins, Pictures and Tears, pp. 91, 102. 15. Elkins, Pictures and Tears, p. 107. 16. Peter Barry, ‘An Academic Discipline Foresees its Death’, PN Review 173 (2007), p. 18. 17. Bill Viola, ‘In Response to Questions from Jörg Zutter’, in Bill Viola: Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, Writings 1973–1994 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995), pp. 239–52 (242). 18. Viola, ‘In Response to Questions from Jörg Zutter’, p. 242. 19. Women: a cultural review 17∶1 (2006), pp. 103–17; contributors included Susan James, Mary Hamer, Kate Flint, Amber Jacobs and Gillian Beer. 20. Brennan, Transmission of Affect, pp. 68–71. 21. Brennan, Transmission of Affect, pp. 126–7.