The evolution of affect theory: the humanities, the sciences, and the study 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 o...

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1. Verfasser: Schaefer, Donovan O. 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses, 2632-1068
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (72 pages)
ISBN:9781108765343
9781108732116
DOI:10.1017/9781108765343

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