The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of EmotionsIn The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy offers a theory of emotions which both critiques and expands upon recent research in the fields of anthropology and psychology. Exploring the links between emotion and cognition, between culture and emotional expression, Reddy applies this theory of emotions to the processes of history. He demonstrates how emotions change over time, how emotions have a very important impact on the course of events, and how different social orders either facilitate or constrain emotional life. In an investigation of Revolutionary France, where sentimentalism in literature and philosophy had promised a new and unprecedented kind of emotional liberty, Reddy's theory of emotions and historical change is successfully put to the test. |
Contents
Answers from Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
Answers from Anthropology | 34 |
Emotional Expression as a Type of Speech Act | 63 |
Emotional Liberty | 112 |
EMOTIONS IN HISTORY FRANCE 17001850 | 139 |
The Flowering of Sentimentalism 17001789 | 141 |
Sentimentalism in the Making of the French Revolution 17891815 | 173 |
Liberal Reason Romantic Passions 18151848 | 211 |
Personal Destinies Case Material of the Early Nineteenth Century | 257 |
Conclusion | 315 |
Detailed Review of Anomalous Cases from the Gazette des Tribunaux Sample | 335 |
Detailed Review of Anomalous Cases from the Tribunal Civil de Versailles Sample | 345 |
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