THE NAVIGATION OF FEELING --- A FRAMEWORK FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS
by William M. Reddy. Cambridge University Press, 2001

PREFACE (pix-xiv)

PART 1 --- WHAT ARE EMOTIONS? (p1-137)

Emotions are the most immediate, the most self-evident, and the most relevant of our orientations toward life.

But from the moment the question is taken seriously, troubling difficulties of definition arise!

    1) Answers from cognitive psychology (p3-33)

      [1] Emotions and color (p3-8)

      [2] Emotion and cognition (p8-21)

      [3] Emotions, goals, and mental control (p21-31)

        (1) Valence, intensity, and goals (p21-25)

        (2) Mental control (p25-31)

      [4] Conclusion (p31-33)

        Consciousness itself has its own unconscious "gatekeepers," as it must. Thus an individual cannot fashion or refashion just any emotion or any set of emotions he or she wishes. (p32)

    2) Answers from anthropology (p34-62)

    3) Emotional expression as a type of speech act (p63-111)

    4) Emotional liberty (p112-137)

      [1] Liberty and history in the anthropology of emotions (p113-118)

      [2] Coordination of goals and emotional navigation (p118-122)

      [3] Emotions and political regimes --- emotional liberty, emotional sufering, emotional effort (p122-130)

      [4] Political evaluation of case material (p130-137)

PART 2 --- EMOTIONS IN HISTORY --- FRANCE, 1700-1850 (p139-314)

    5) The flowering of sentimentalism --- 1700-1789 (p141-172)

    6) Sentimentalism in the making of the French Revolution --- 1789-1815 (p173-210)

    7) Liberal reason, romantic passions --- 1815-1848 (p211-256)

    8) Personal destinies --- case materials of the early 19th century (p257-314)

CONCLUSION (p315-333)

    [1] Emotions in Western common sense (p315-320)

    [2] The theory of "emotives" (p320-324)

    [3] Emotions in the birth of modernity --- France , 1680-1884 (p122-130)

    [4] Closing the circle (p332-333)

APPENDIX A --- Detailed review of anomalous cases from the Gazette des Tribuaux Sample (p335-344)

APPENDIX B --- Detailed review of anomalous cases from the Tribunal Civil de Versailles sample (p345-348)

REFERENCES (p349-368)

INDEX (p369-380)

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