“追问一个人的情感是否发自内心，即情感的真与伪，这种提问本身没有什么意义，因为所有成年人的情感体验其实都是被训练的结果。”
一个人内心的情感体验，是某种关系的体现。无论是个人、团体还是阶层的情感表达，都无法忽视社会情感准则的教化训练。本书作为情感史研究的奠基之作，提出了情感表达、情感体制、情感导航、情感自由、情感痛苦等理论，并以“情感主义”为切入点，研究启蒙时代及法国大革命时期人们情感表达方式的变化及其意义。沙龙、共济会、咖啡馆等情感避难所的出现，是人们避免情感痛苦、追求情感自由的表现。人们在日记、通信、演讲中表露出对情感自由的向往，报纸刊物以及私人发行的小册子也在这方面发挥了引领作用。呼吁情感真挚、拒绝伪善成为人们在情感表达方面的基本要求。这种情感表达方式并不仅限于小说、戏剧等文学创作，而是成为一种社会行为规范，上升为一种政治上的“美德”。
由此，雷迪清晰勾勒出情感与认知、情感与理性、情感表达与文化之间的关系，在“硬邦邦”的“理性”材料之外，强调“情感有自身的历史”，使情感成为历史学的合理研究面向，为情感史的发展提供了坚实的理论支撑。
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雷迪通过提出问题，提供一些关于集体情感变化及其限制的答案，开启了情感研究跨学科领域的新阶段。—— 《美国社会学杂志》
这是一项不同寻常的工作，既刺激又富有成效....雷迪的直觉是，情感不应该简单地从“思想”中区分出来，这种直觉发展得非常出色……我相信这本书将成为任何关于自我和情感的人类学中的必读书目。——纽约大学弗雷德·迈尔斯
这是一本深刻的学术著作，将成为快速发展的跨学科情感研究的核心。雷迪在心理学、人类学和历史学之间架起了桥梁，探讨了情感是管理与人类最亲密的关系的过程这一迷人的观点。
——基思·奥克利，多伦多大学教授，认知心理学家，小说家

右翼民粹主义政客的每一次“露面”都是虚伪的“表演”，他们英俊幽默，却带来“恐惧”。
通过政治表演和话语建构，右翼民粹主义政党成功制造出欧洲社会问题的“替罪羊”。
而治理国家的工具，却被作为武器，用以引起民众对“替罪羊”的恐惧。
如何逃离这样的“恐惧”？奥地利语言学家抽丝剥茧，掀开西方政客“政治话语”的伪装。
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在大多数欧洲国家，一些右翼民粹主义者通过大选进入议会，右翼民粹主义政党成了一支不可忽视的政治力量。他们已远离边缘，上升为主流政党和主流运动的领导者。为什么会这样？
无论是失业率上升，经济失去活力，还是犯罪率上升，社会动荡不安，面对欧洲内部的这些社会问题，右翼民粹主义政党明知根源就在国家内部，却不愿正视，也没有尝试解决。而是借机运用政治表演和话语建构，将这些问题归咎于那些不被主流文化认可的“他者”和少数族群，将选民对社会问题的恐惧变成对“替罪羊”的恐惧，以逃避自己的政治责任，达到控制选民的目的。
本书运用“话语—历史分析法”，通过分析右翼民粹主义政党在选举活动、媒体访谈、社交媒体等语境中的话语、图像和文本，深入分析欧洲各国的政治形势，解构、理解和解释右翼民粹主义政党的“话术”以及这些“话术”为什么能让选民产生共鸣，揭示语篇、语体和文本是如何在话语形式中、语境中被操控，以表征话语歧视和偏见的。通过这种分析，看穿右翼民粹主义政党的“伪装”，摆脱他们带来的偏见与对“替罪羊”的恐惧。

好的婚姻，一半是爱，一半是性。本书被誉为性萧条时期亲密关系构建指南，是当代亲密关系领域洞察力先锋埃丝特•佩瑞尔的经典之作，帮你拥有真挚永恒的亲密关系，让浪漫的火花持续一生。
•为什么婚后很快没了激情？
•伴侣性冷淡怎么办？
•为什么有了孩子之后，我们对彼此没有欲望 了？
•出轨/被出轨后，要离婚吗？
•爱和性，哪个更重 要？
•为什么婚姻美满儿女双全，我却仍感到孤独？
本书以优雅的姿态和深刻的洞见，解答了上述种种婚姻与情感难题 。作为一名从业35年的婚恋心理咨询师，作者已经帮助无数身处婚恋困境的伴侣。如何让浪漫的火花持续一生？在岁月和现实的侵蚀下，伴侣之间怎样才能仍旧葆有当初的爱与激情？这是婚姻中人必须面对的一个最本质、最核心的恒久难题，也是每一对亲密关系的终极理想。作者以非凡的勇气和见识给出了解答，其思考的广度和深度少有人及。好的婚姻，一半是爱，一半是性。这本书将带领我们洞悉婚姻中的爱与性，收获一段真挚永恒的亲密关系。
“《亲密陷阱》对人类历史上最古老的婚姻形式之一——无性婚姻——采取了强硬立场。”——美国《纽约客》
“佩瑞尔的观点与大众的普遍看法截然相反，听起来甚至是亵渎神明，然而，就在你被她震惊的同时，你也会承认她是正确的。因为她的观点能让你产生深深的共鸣，她的直觉和准确相当惊人。”——英国《观察者》
“佩瑞尔是一位无畏的作家和思想家，她将以一种激进和彻底的方式挑战你对性的看法。在谈论无激情的性与充满活力的性这个话题时，她的声音是最原始、尖锐、睿智、意气风发的。就像一场美梦，你无法放下这本书。”——哈丽特•勒纳，《愤怒之舞》的作者

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.”

Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those services but are vehemently against the very idea of big government?
With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Using Scott Walker and Wisconsin’s prominent and protracted debate about the appropriate role of government, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics, regardless of whether urban politicians and their supporters really do shortchange or look down on those living in the country.

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest. Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.

A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in "Touching Feeling", her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes sombre, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, "Touching Feeling" interrogates - through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others - emotion in many forms. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Is sexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring.

本书从社会伦理学的角度切入文学思潮与女性主义文化和文学，作为交叉学科的研究领域，更突显除了五四以后女性意识觉醒对社会文化，尤其对文学的重大影响，梳理出了五四文学个性解放题材的重要思想源头之一，具有创新意义；研究方法较为独特新颖，用“关键词”构成思潮史的变化，既有内在的逻辑性，又体现出鲜明的价值观；史料丛集丰富，尤其是晚清民初的许多史料支撑了本书的核心观点。

One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. Images of atrocities have become, via the little screens of the television and the computer, something of a commonplace. But are viewers inured -- or incited -- to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of people in faraway zones of conflict?
Susan Sontag's now classic book On Photography defined the terms of this debate twenty-five years ago. Her new book is a profound rethinking of the intersection of "news" art, and understanding in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster. She makes a fresh appraisal of the arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent, foster violence, or create apathy, evoking a long history of the representation of the pain of others . . .
http://www.susansontag.com/regardingpain.htm
read an excerpt
http://www.susansontag.com/regardingpainexcerpt.htm

情绪究竟是什么？是人类专有的行为能力，或是自然万物皆能展现的本能？是膝反射一般，抑或是社会化塑造出的结果，人性操弄下做出的选择？在各路专家就情绪智能（EQ）大放厥词的同时，情绪的本质及作用仍是众说纷纭。
露丝·雷斯在本书中直接面质各学门对于情绪的理解、误解及自圆其说，经由仔细检视二战后的情绪相关研究，梳理传统情绪理论的脉络，拆解情绪意义派与情绪本能派的立论及矛盾，解析神经科学及人文社会科学新颖却可能致命的论点。在此书的带领之下，读者得以一窥情绪神秘面纱下的暗潮汹涌。

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of “love” in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested.

过去的游戏缺乏情感，也很少有值得动情的对象，因为一般游戏角色只能发出机械的声音和做出固定的动作，很难让人产生情感效果。随着计算机游戏技术的提高，我们不断完善模拟的思想、行为与情感，创建更加扣人心弦的游戏，让玩家进入强烈的情感之旅。本书介绍如何创建与提炼情感工程技术。
DavidFreeman的情感工程技术包括下列内容：让玩家认同自己的角色和与NPC(非玩家角色)结合、设计动人而出入意料的游戏时刻、创建具有情感深度的NPC。情感工程技术分为32类，本书分别介绍了所有这些技术，并对每一类中的各种技术进行了演示。

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Scientific American to The New Yorker . Emotional Design articulates the profound influence of the feelings that objects evoke, from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects of tomorrow. Norman draws on a wealth of examples and the latest scientific insights to present a bold exploration of the objects in our everyday world. Emotional Design will appeal not only to designers and manufacturers but also to managers, psychologists, and general readers who love to think about their stuff.

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Henry Kissinger. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain difficult to describe in words, it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme cases to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry goes on to analyse the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of warfare and torture, and she demonstrates how political regimes use the power of physical pain to attack and break down the sufferer's sense of self. Finally she turns to examples of artistic and cultural activity; actions achieved in the face of pain and difficulty.

Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet.
Feeling Backward makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. It looks at early-twentieth-century queer novels often dismissed as "too depressing" and asks how we might value and reclaim the dark feelings that they represent. Heather Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present.
Through elegant readings of Walter Pater, Willa Cather, Radclyffe Hall, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and through stimulating engagement with a range of critical sources, Feeling Backward argues for a form of politics attentive to social exclusion and its effects.

How does your personality shape your life… and what, if anything, can you do about it?
Are you hardwired for happiness, or born to broo d? Do you think you’re in charge of your future, or do you surf the waves of unknowable fate? Would you be happier, or just less socially adept, if you were less concerned about what other people thought of you? And what about your “Type A” spouse: is he or she destined to have a heart attack, or just drive you to drink?
In the past few decades, new scientific research has transformed old ideas about the nature of human personality. Neuroscientists, biologists, and psychological scientists have reexamined the theories of Freud and Jung as well as the humanistic psychologies of the 1960s, upending the simplistic categorizations of personality “types,” and developing new tools and methods for exploring who we are.
Renowned professor and pioneering research psychologist Brian R. Little has been at the leading edge of this new science. In this wise and witty book he shares a wealth of new data and provocative insights about who we are, why we act the way we do, what we can—and can’t—change, and how we can best thrive in light of our “nature.”
Me, Myself, and Us explores questions that are rooted in the origins of human consciousness but are as commonplace as yesterday’s breakfast conversation, such as whether our personality traits are “set” by age thirty or whether our brains and selves are more plastic. He considers what our personalities portend for our health and success, and the extent to which our well-being depends on the personal projects we pursue.
Through stories, studies, personal experiences, and entertaining interactive assessments, Me, Myself, and Us provides a lively, thought-provoking, and ultimately optimistic look at the possibilities and perils of being uniquely ourselves, while illuminating the selves of the familiar strangers we encounter, work with, and love.
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“Me, Myself, and Us is a truly gripping look at questions at the heart of the human experience. Why do we do what we do? How does our environment shape our nature and our nature our environment? Are some people just innately happier than other? In crisp and lucid prose, one of the giants in the field of personality science tackles these questions and many more. I defy you to read this book and not change the way you think about your friends, your family, and yourself.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND
Insightful, clever and practical. Professor Little is a genius, making personality psychology not only relevant but essential knowledge in the modern world. This book is one “aha” moment after another, each rocking your world and upending the way you think about your coworkers, your relationships and your life.”
—Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of GoodThink
“Me, Myself, and Us is a masterpiece. With extraordinary wit and wisdom, distinguished psychologist Brian Little offers startling insights about our trivial pursuits and magnificent obsessions. It should come with a warning label: this book will fundamentally change the way you see yourself and everyone you know.”
—Adam Grant, Wharton professor and bestselling author of Give and Take
“Brian Little is one of the wisest, funniest, kindest, and most erudite people I have ever met, and in this book you’ll be treated to a generous helping of all these personality traits. A monumentally important book for anyone who wants to understand their colleagues, their loved ones — and their very own selves.”
—Susan Cain, author of the New York Times bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking“

Envy, irritation, paranoia�in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called �animatedness,� and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called �stuplimity.� She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late-twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature�with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race�but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.

This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. Major thinkers theorize affect: visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores "cruel optimism," Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat, and Elspeth Probyn examines shame, they, along with the other contributors, show how an awareness of affect is opening up exciting new insights in disciplines from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and psychology to philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. In essays diverse in subject matter, style and perspective, the contributors demonstrate how affect theory illuminates the intertwined realms of the aesthetic, the ethical and the political as they play out across bodies (human and non-human) in both mundane and extraordinary ways. They reveal the broad theoretical possibilities opened by an awareness of affect as they reflect on topics including ethics, food, public morale, glamour, snark in the workplace and mental health regimes. The Affect Theory Reader includes an interview with the cultural theorist Lawrence Grossberg and an afterword by the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart. In the introduction, the editors suggest ways of defining affect, trace the concept's history and highlight the role of affect theory in various areas of study. Contributors; Sara Ahmed; Ben Anderson; Lauren Berlant; Lone Bertelsen; Steven D. Brown; Patricia Ticineto Clough; Anna Gibbs; Melissa Gregg; Lawrence Grossberg; Ben Highmore; Brian Massumi; Andrew Murphie; Elspeth Probyn; Gregory J. Seigworth; Kathleen Stewart; Nigel Thrift; Ian Tucker; Megan Watkins

 颠覆对情感与非理性的传统认知，重新审视决策系统并作出英明决策。
 综合博弈论、心理学、进化论、行为经济学等众多学科，妙趣横生，堪称《思考，快与慢》《自私的基因》合体。
 8位诺贝尔经济学奖得主（汤姆•谢林、罗杰•梅尔森、罗伯特•卢卡斯、罗伯特•奥曼、阿尔文•罗思、弗农•史密斯、埃里克•马斯金、肯尼斯•阿罗）力荐，阵容前所未有
 《怪诞行为学》作者丹•艾瑞、哈佛大学前校长劳伦斯•萨默斯、《妙趣横生博弈论》作者巴里•奈尔伯夫等推荐。
头脑与直觉，哪个更聪明？
有句老生常谈：你太感情用事，要试着理性思考。但这建议是否每次都算得上中肯？情感带来的总是冲动么？冲动总是魔鬼么？
在《狡猾的情感》这部令人称奇的著作中，埃亚尔•温特提出了一个简单的问题：我们为什么有情感？若是情感让人做出昏庸的决定，为何进化未能早早让情感丧失重要性？就像自私的基因一样，在进化过程中，情感是不是也有狡猾的一面？答案是，虽说或许并不完全符合逻辑，情感却常常能为我们带来更好、更安全、更理想的结果。
实际上，按照温特的发现，情感的背后有其理性的逻辑，而理性的决策中也常常带来情感的影子。例如，许多互利的承诺，如婚姻或加入团队，得以实现的唯一条件是情感的支撑，而非深思熟虑；尽管过度自信是人之常情——何以会人人都高于平均水平？——但我们却经常得益于自己的妄自尊大……
《狡猾的情感》结合博弈论、进化论、心理学和行为科学，为我们的思考方式乃至无意识的思考方式做出了出人意料、令人信服的辩护，让我们逃出认知的囚笼。
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在《狡猾的情感》一书中，埃亚尔•温特向我们展示了我们有时希望自己不曾拥有的情感，如愤怒和嫉妒，也有其出人意料的用处。读完此书，你生气肯定不会见少，但会更加了解影响你情感的重点。
——《怪诞行为学》作者 丹•艾瑞里
埃亚尔•温特的《狡猾的情感》汇集了自然选择理论、近 30 年来有关选择和决策的大部分研究——这些研究既超越又补充和佐证了“理性选择”——并关注和认可了“情感”在选择动机中所起到的作用。你可能——和我一样——熟知其中的部分乃至大部分理论，但其中仍然有许多你不了解的理论，足以令本书成为你的一笔财富。而且，本书读起来也妙趣横生！
——诺贝尔经济学奖得者 汤姆•谢林
很高兴能跟随埃亚尔•温特，探寻不合逻辑的情感所蕴含的深层逻辑，并在其帮助下，认识到非理性行为的合理性。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主 罗杰•梅尔森
和西格蒙德•弗洛伊德相似，埃亚尔•温特也知道，了解人类行为，需要倾听和观察，而非贴标签、分门别类。但有一点弗洛伊德不知道：用经济理论的严谨语言阐述他的发现竟会如此发人深省、令人称奇、激动人心。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主 罗伯特•卢卡斯
很多人以为情感与理性思考的范畴向来互不沾边。但这部引人入胜的作品证明，他们错了：情感对理性决策起了重要作用。《狡猾的情感》向我们展示了前因后果。
——哈佛大学前任校长及美国财政部前任部长 劳伦斯•萨默斯
我们习惯性地认为愤怒、爱、侮辱等情感是非理性的。埃亚尔•温特在自己的新书中，解释了为何这些情感其实非常理性，并且实现了重要功能。这些功能往往能促进我们每个人最切身的利益。这是一部十分重要、妙趣横生、令人信服的著作。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主 罗伯特•奥曼
埃亚尔•温特以引人入胜的笔触阐述行为与情感的科学，解释了情感为何及如何让我们变得更加聪明，并对了解人类进化过程中的理性行为与互动起到了核心作用。而这一过程无法捉摸，是自我意识所无法获知的。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主 弗农•史密斯
埃亚尔•温特这部轻松活泼的指南书解释了何时让情感支配理智是完全合乎理性的及其背后的原因，既令人耳目一新，又构思巧妙。温特教授带读者简要领略了方兴未艾的实验经济学领域，在其中表明理智与情感相互补充，而非截然相反，并对反歧视运动和阿以冲突等热点问题提出了耐人寻味的见解，以此证明了自己的观点。读过《狡猾的情感》，你不仅会觉得自己智慧见长，也会更加乐观向上。
——《美丽心灵》作者 西尔维娅•娜萨
埃亚尔•温特，作为一名知名博弈论学者和行为经济学家，带着同情心与同理心，记述理性与情感。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主阿尔文•罗思
人们往往认为感性和理性是截然相反的两极。但埃亚尔•温特——一位杰出的博弈论学者和经济学家——令人信服地证明，情感其实可以促进理性行为。他的著作读来津津有味。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主埃里克•马斯金
埃亚尔•温特的著作令人钦佩地结合了近年来重要的社会和个人行为研究及其对经济行为的意义。他清晰无误地说明了较为传统的理性分析何以仍然是论述的重要一部分，但决不可止乎于此。他的阐述轻松活泼、很口语化，却不失严谨。他从家人口中听说的故事与引用文献共同成文而无龃龉。他本人对这些文献则做出过重要贡献。
——诺贝尔经济学奖得主肯尼斯•阿罗
《狡猾的情感》让社会性内容回归社会科学领域。事实上，博弈论有感性的一面，而温特展示了表达并了解自身及周围人的情感何以会帮助你成为更加优秀的战略家。是足智多谋还是愁肠百结，全看你自己。
——耶鲁大学管理学院密尔顿•施泰因巴赫教授 及
《妙趣横生博弈论》作者巴里•奈尔伯夫
这是一部非常难得的著作，普通读者随便翻到哪一页，都可以找到有意思的内容……对于普通读者来说，《狡猾的情感》介绍了以情感影响行动的积极方式，是一段引人入胜的阅读体验。对于那些担心自己的情感会偶尔战胜“高级官能”的人来说，这也是一方有益的镇痛剂。
——《金融时报》
见解深刻，引人入胜。
——《成功》杂志
大量引用了精彩的研究和个人轶事，生动活泼、通俗易懂的作品。
——《柯克斯书评》
《狡猾的情感》对支配我们抉择的许多因素提出了许多深刻的见解，至少我们可以在其帮助下，通过内在的理性基础理解自己的情感。
——《出版人周刊》

In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday.
Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.