William M Reddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 107353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Reddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddy |
| SIGNATURE | REDDY W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0929-1663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Incontornável Intencionalidade Dos Afetos
O “problema das emoções”, isto é, o fato de que muitas delas sejam, ao mesmo tempo, cheias de significados e corporais ainda precisa ser resolvido. Pensadores ocidentais, de Agostinho a Zajonc, passando Descartes lidaram com esse problema empregando diversas formas de dualismos mente-corpo. Desde os anos 1970, alguns psicólogos e neurocientistas o têm evitado ao falar em “processamento” cognitivo e emocional, usando uma terminologia emprestada da…
To Fly the Plane
The common Western distinction between reason and emotion (which is not found outside Western-influenced traditions) tends to obscure an important distinction between two kinds of thinking: logical and mathematical reasoning, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, what is sometimes called "situational awareness," a kind of thinking that involves striving to take into account multiple simultaneously true descriptions of a situation. Emotion, as …
The Unavoidable Intentionality of Affect
The “problem of emotions,” that is, that many of them are both meaningful and corporeal, has yet to be resolved. Western thinkers, from Augustine to Descartes to Zajonc, have handled this problem by employing various forms of mind–body dualism. Some psychologists and neuroscientists since the 1970s have avoided it by talking about cognitive and emotional “processing,” using a terminology borrowed from computer science that nullifies the meaningfu…
The Eurasian Origins of Empty Time and Space
Understood as a form of temporality, modernity is seen as consisting of empty time and space. However, careful examination of the origins of modern notions of empty time and space suggest they arose from background assumptions in wide use across Eurasia in the early modern period, and also that they arose prior to, and independent of, the emergence of the modern nation‐state. Here, various Eurasian versions of astronomy and philology are examined…
The Paradox of Modernity
Talk of modernity is plagued with paradox. A relativist stance towards modernity—the claim, for example, that modernity is just one cultural configuration among others—seems to contradict itself. The concept of “cultural configuration,” and similar notions (such as “language game,” “discourse,” “community,” or “myth”), are themselves the products of modern intellectual research and debate. If the relativist claim is true, it appears to undermine …
The Making of Romantic Love
The Making of Romantic Love
AHR Conversation
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Neuroscience and the Fallacies of Functionalism
Smail's On Deep History and the Brain is rightly critical of the functionalist fallacies that have plagued evolutionary theory, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. However, his attempt to improve on these efforts relies on functional explanations that themselves oversimplify the lessons of neuroscience. In addition, like explanations in evolutionary psychology, they are highly speculative and cannot be confirmed or disproved by evidence. N…
Rise of Market Culture
Historical Research on the Self and Emotions
Research on this topic in Europe and North America has reached a new stage. Prior to 1970, historians told a story of progress in which modern individuals gradually gained mastery of emotions. After 1970 this older approach was put into doubt. Since 1990 research into the history of emotions has increasingly relied on a new methodology, based on the assumption that emotion is a domain of effort, and that it is possible to document variance betwee…
The Anti-Empire of General de Boigne
Sentimentalism became a widely accepted practical code among the educated European elite in the late eighteenth century. In the 1790s, however, it went into rapid decline. One reason is that when Europeans tried to establish families and polities in line with the dictates of sentimentalism, these efforts often ended in failure. A noteworthy example is provided by the career of Benoît Leborgne, later known as Bennett de Boigne, who rose to fame as…
The Navigation of Feeling
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 im…
The Logic of Action
Modern social theory, by and large, has aimed at reducing the complexity of action situations to a set of manageable abstractions. But these abstractions, whether functionalist or linguistic, fail to grasp the indeterminacy of action situations.Action proceeds by discovery and combination. The logic of action is serendipitous and combinative. From these characteristics, a number of consequences flow: The whole field of our intentions is engaged i…
Sentimentalism and Its Erasure
Social Twists and Linguistic Turns
Emotional Liberty
Against Constructionism
A coherent account of emotional change must find a dynamic, a vector of alteration, outside the discursive structures and normative practices that have monopolized ethnographic attention in research on affect. But this dynamic can be found in the very character of emotional expression. Emotion talk and emotional gestures are not well characterized by the notion of "discourse" derived from the poststructuralist theories of Foucault or by that of "…
Meriter votre bienveillance
William M. Reddy, Colette Friedlander, "Mériter votre bienveillance": les employés du ministère de l'Intérieur en France de 1814 à 1848, Le Mouvement social, No. 170, Regards Américains (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 7-37
Condottieri of the Pen
Journal Article Condottieri of the Pen: Journalists and the Public Sphere in Postrevolutionary France (1815–1850) Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 5, December 1994, Pages 1546–1570, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.5.1546 Published: 01 December 1994
Marriage, Honor, and the Public Sphere in Postrevolutionary France
Work and Wages
Postmodernism and the Public Sphere
Naming the difference
Money & Liberty in Modern Europe
Against Constructionism
A coherent account of emotional change must find a dynamic, a vector of alteration, outside the discursive structures and normative practices that have monopolized ethnographic attention in research on affect. But this dynamic can be found in the very character of emotional expression. Emotion talk and emotional gestures are not well characterized by the notion of "discourse" derived from the poststructuralist theories of Foucault or by that of "…
Emotional Liberty
The Textile Trade and the Languageof the Crowd at Rouen 1752-1871
Journal Article THE TEXTILE TRADE AND THE LANGUAGEOF THE CROWD AT ROUEN 1752–1871 Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 74, Issue 1, February 1977, Pages 62–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/74.1.62 Published: 01 February 1977
Historical Research on the Self and Emotions
Research on this topic in Europe and North America has reached a new stage. Prior to 1970, historians told a story of progress in which modern individuals gradually gained mastery of emotions. After 1970 this older approach was put into doubt. Since 1990 research into the history of emotions has increasingly relied on a new methodology, based on the assumption that emotion is a domain of effort, and that it is possible to document variance betwee…
Sentimentalism and Its Erasure
Money & Liberty in Modern Europe
Work, Community and Power
Postmodernism and the Public Sphere
Family and Factory
Journal Article Family and Factory: French Linen Weavers in the Belle Epoque Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Winter 1975, Pages 102–112, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/8.2.102 Published: 01 January 1975
Social Twists and Linguistic Turns
The Eurasian Origins of Empty Time and Space
Understood as a form of temporality, modernity is seen as consisting of empty time and space. However, careful examination of the origins of modern notions of empty time and space suggest they arose from background assumptions in wide use across Eurasia in the early modern period, and also that they arose prior to, and independent of, the emergence of the modern nation‐state. Here, various Eurasian versions of astronomy and philology are examined…
Neuroscience and the Fallacies of Functionalism
Smail's On Deep History and the Brain is rightly critical of the functionalist fallacies that have plagued evolutionary theory, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. However, his attempt to improve on these efforts relies on functional explanations that themselves oversimplify the lessons of neuroscience. In addition, like explanations in evolutionary psychology, they are highly speculative and cannot be confirmed or disproved by evidence. N…
The Logic of Action
Modern social theory, by and large, has aimed at reducing the complexity of action situations to a set of manageable abstractions. But these abstractions, whether functionalist or linguistic, fail to grasp the indeterminacy of action situations.Action proceeds by discovery and combination. The logic of action is serendipitous and combinative. From these characteristics, a number of consequences flow: The whole field of our intentions is engaged i…
Modes de paiement et contrôle du travail dans les filatures de coton en France, 1750-1848
L'auteur analyse les procédés utilisés par les entrepreneurs pour contrôler la qualité du travail et l'assiduité de la main d'oeuvre dans la filature de coton de 1750 à 1848. Il décrit en détail un ensemble de règles et de pratiques : numérotage précis des fils, utilisation de dévidoirs de circonférence uniforme, retenue sur les salaires du prix de l'énergie et de la lumière qui garantissaient la discipline et la productivité des fileurs. Ceux-ci…
Skeins, Scales, Discounts, Steam, and other Objects of Crowd Justice in Early French Textile Mills
At 7:00 a.m. on 16 July 1833, M. Minder, owner of a cotton mill at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, a small textile center in Alsace, announced to his spinners that he would henceforth be charging them 1 franc 20 centimes per week for dévidage, that is for the reeling and unreeling of roving or finished thread-a task accomplished by women in a separate workroom. In response, his spinners walked out of the mill. A local arbitration board (the Conseil des P…
Condottieri of the Pen
Journal Article Condottieri of the Pen: Journalists and the Public Sphere in Postrevolutionary France (1815–1850) Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 5, December 1994, Pages 1546–1570, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.5.1546 Published: 01 December 1994
Family and Factory
Journal Article Family and Factory: French Linen Weavers in the Belle Epoque Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 8, Issue 2, Winter 1975, Pages 102–112, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/8.2.102 Published: 01 January 1975
Strikes in France, 1830-1968. Edward Shorter , Charles Tilly
The Textile Trade and the Languageof the Crowd at Rouen 1752-1871
Journal Article THE TEXTILE TRADE AND THE LANGUAGEOF THE CROWD AT ROUEN 1752–1871 Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 74, Issue 1, February 1977, Pages 62–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/74.1.62 Published: 01 February 1977
The Batteurs and the Informer's Eye
The Batteurs and the Informer's Eye: A Labour Dispute under the French Second Empire Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, SPRING 1979, Pages 30–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/7.1.30 Published: 01 March 1979
Skeins, Scales, Discounts, Steam, and other Objects of Crowd Justice in Early French Textile Mills
At 7:00 a.m. on 16 July 1833, M. Minder, owner of a cotton mill at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, a small textile center in Alsace, announced to his spinners that he would henceforth be charging them 1 franc 20 centimes per week for dévidage, that is for the reeling and unreeling of roving or finished thread-a task accomplished by women in a separate workroom. In response, his spinners walked out of the mill. A local arbitration board (the Conseil des P…
The Sweated Trades
Ethnographic Method
Journal Article ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD Get access William M. Reddy William M. Reddy Duke UniversityN. Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1980, Pages 216–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/10.1.216 Published: 01 October 1980
Modes de paiement et contrôle du travail dans les filatures de coton en France, 1750-1848
L'auteur analyse les procédés utilisés par les entrepreneurs pour contrôler la qualité du travail et l'assiduité de la main d'oeuvre dans la filature de coton de 1750 à 1848. Il décrit en détail un ensemble de règles et de pratiques : numérotage précis des fils, utilisation de dévidoirs de circonférence uniforme, retenue sur les salaires du prix de l'énergie et de la lumière qui garantissaient la discipline et la productivité des fileurs. Ceux-ci…
The Rise of Market Culture
Combining the perspectives of anthropology and social history, Professor Reddy traces the transition from precapitalist to capitalist culture in the French textile industry from 1750 to 1900. He shows how and why a new conception of the social order based on the idea of the market began to emerge, and examines the attendant political and social conflict. Focusing on the northern regional centres in France which led the movement toward mechanisati…
Journal de ma vie
Death Is a Social Disease
The Rise of Market Culture
List of figures and maps List of abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I. A World Without Entrepreneurs, 1750-1815: 1. Commerce as conflict 2. The design of the spinning jenny 3. New terms and old practices Part II. Uses of the Market Idea, 1816-1851: 4. The first crisis of management 5. Spinners on guard 6. Visions of subsistence 7. A search for identity Part III. Unquestioned Assumptions, 1852-1904: 8. The clock time of the Second Empire 9. T…
Response to Charles Tilly
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Work, Community and Power
The Rise of Market Culture
The structure of a cultural crisis
The great French Revolution of 1789–99 brought a general change in the way French people thought about commodities. This change occurred within a society that had centuries of experience with money-based exchange behind it, and one that, although undergoing rapid commercial expansion in the eighteenth century, saw no significant change in the predominant modes of production either before, during, or after the crisis. Industrial capitalism was all…
The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914 . Leonard R. Berlanstein
The Rise of Market Culture
The Rise of Market Culture
Money and Liberty in Modern Europe
The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisio…
The Miners of Decazeville
The Rise of Market Culture
The Rise of Market Culture. The Textile Trade and French Society 1750-1900
Money & Liberty in Modern Europe
Naming the difference
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