The Evolution of Affect Theory
The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power
Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73211-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73211-6 (ISBN)
Designed for scholars thinking about affect and emotion in the humanities and social sciences, this Element also draws on the life sciences to reveal how affect theory can be used to analyse systems of power.
Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.
Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.
Introduction: music without words; 1. The Deleuzian dialect of affect theory; 2. Unbecoming: criticisms of the Deleuzian dialect; 3. The animality of affect; 4. Economies of dignity: reconsidering the mosque movement; Conclusion: the entertainment.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.05.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 130 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-73211-9 / 1108732119 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-73211-6 / 9781108732116 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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