Winter reading

I'm getting into The Saturated Self, a consciously postmodernist take on the meaning of "self" in the digital age. It's a subject I'm keenly interested in, and it's very engaging, but...

Right off the bat, the author states that human emotions are socially constructed rather than universal among cultures. Maternal love in particular is asserted to be absent in various times and places in history.

I kinda thought this debate was over, and that the basic repertoire of human emotions was, indeed, believed to be invariant across cultures by the great majority of people who study such things. But what do I know? I'm not sure what to think about this guy.