num_pages: 396
description: The Navigation of Feeling critiques recent psychological and anthropological research on emotions. William M. Reddy offers a new theory of emotions and historical change drawing on research from many academic disciplines. This new theory makes it possible to see how emotions change over time how emotions have a very important impact on the shape of history and how different social orders either facilitate emotional life or make it more difficult. This theory is fully explored in a case study of the French Revolution.
language: English
title: The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions
publisher: Cambridge University Press