Burdiel, IsabelGarcía Moscardó, EsterSerrano, Elena2024-10-232024-10-232024Isabel Burdiel, Ester García Moscardó and Elena Serrano, ""Introduction. Intersecting Histories of Sensibility and Emotion: A Plural Legacy"", in Isabel Burdiel, Ester García Moscardó and Elena Serrano (eds.), Histories of Sensibilities. Visions of Gender, Race and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003342236-19781003342236https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003342236-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24105This introduction proposes a historically and locally active approach to the study of sensibilities with a transnational and globally oriented perspective, which goes beyond an abstract, totalizing approach, even beyond a notion of “enlightened sensibility.” Considering a polyphonic, dissonant, and ambivalent Enlightenment and its legacy in a broad sense, the contributions in this book explore the intersections between experiences and representations of sensibility with gender, race, sexuality, and nation. A history of sensibilities understood in these broad terms, this chapter argues, goes beyond a history of emotions and a history of ideas and allows for a better analysis of how people perceived the world and its hierarchies.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess55 Historiacapítulo de libro