The Ascent of Affect by Ruth Leys
In recent years, the emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings. Ruth Leys's brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and disagreement. The Ascent of Affect focuses on the post-World War II period, when interest in the emotions as an object of study began to revive. Leys analyzes the ongoing debate over how to understand the emotions, paying particular attention to the continual conflict between camps that argue for the intentionality or meaning of emotions but have trouble explaining their presence in non-human animals and those that argue for the universality of emotions but struggle when the question turns to meaning. Addressing the work of key figures from across the spectrum, considering the potentially misleading appeal of neuroscience for those working in the humanities, and bringing her story fully up to date by taking in the latest debates, Leys presents here the most thorough analysis available of how we have tried to think about how we feel.-
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
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The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Make Poverty Personal
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Cultural Capital
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The Poet's Work
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Holding On to Reality
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Costa Rican Natural History
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Body by Darwin
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Bankers and Empire
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The Dancing Bees
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Bernini
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No Caption Needed
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Kamikaze Diaries
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What Is Pastoral?
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Naked Airport
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The Peloponnesian War
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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
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Deserts Are Not Empty
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Subaltern Studies 2.0 Being against the Capitalocene
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For the Love of It
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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood
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Plant Evolution
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How to Do It
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Atlas of Wintering North American Birds
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Mythologies
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The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau
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Japan
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The Art of the Novel
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Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
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Ghost Image
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Becoming a Psychotherapist
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Real American Ethics
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Arendt and America
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Campus Life
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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
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Pushkin's Button
Ruth Leys is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226488561 |
| ISBN 10 | 022648856X |
| Title | The Ascent of Affect |
| Author | Ruth Leys |
| Series | Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2017-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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