The Evolution of Affect Theory by Donovan O Schaefer

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Part of Elements In Histories Of Emotions And The Senses series

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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.

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The Evolution of Affect Theory by Donovan O Schaefer

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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ISBN 13	9781108732116
ISBN 10	1108732119
Title	The Evolution of Affect Theory
Author	Donovan O Schaefer
Series	Elements In Histories Of Emotions And The Senses
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2019-05-30
Number of pages	75
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