The Evolution of Affect Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-73211-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 134 g

Reihe: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaefer, Donovan O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.