The Evolution of Affect Theory : The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
ISBN-10
1108732119
ISBN-13
9781108732116
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 30th, 2019
Print length
82 Pages
Weight
138 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.60 x 1.00 cms
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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.
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