Navigation of Feeling : A Framework for the History of Emotions

Reddy, William M.

ISBN 10: 0521004721 / ISBN 13: 9780521004725

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Titre : Navigation of Feeling : A Framework for the ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Date d'édition : 2008

Reliure : Couverture souple

Etat : New

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The Navigation of Feeling Offers a theory that explains the impact of emotions on historical change. Full description

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In 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.