The Navigation of Feeling : A Framework for the History of Emotions

Reddy, William M.

ISBN 10: 0521004721 / ISBN 13: 9780521004725

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Titolo: The Navigation of Feeling : A Framework for ...

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

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.

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'Brilliant and wonderful: this is a book of profound scholarship that will become central to the fast growing interdisciplinary interest in emotion. Reddy bridges psychology, anthropology and history to explore the fascinating idea that emotion is the process that manages the concerns that are most intimate to humankind.' Keith Oatley, University of Toronto