Abstract
William M. Reddy is a brilliant historian, but his enduring fame will undoubtedly stem from his central role in the development of the history of emotions. Grounded empirically in an amazing surge in the ability of neuroscientists to image the functioning of human brains, the study of emotions and the history of emotions are bringing together researchers in fields such as psychology, medicine, anthropology, sociology, history, literature, art, and cultural studies in conversations and publications that promise more permeable disciplinary boundaries and a more nuanced approach to the history (and present) of human interactions. With his seminal study The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions (2001), Reddy established himself as the premier theoretical voice in a movement that takes seriously the strong empirical evidence that an emotion is not a hard-wired physical response but exists as “a range of loosely connected thought material” (Navigation, p. 94) inseparable from even the most rational-appearing cognition. What he began with this earlier work he refines and clarifies with a telling application to history in his new monograph.
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