The politics of affective societies : an interdisciplinary essay / / Jonas Bens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910346051503321
• Autore: Bens Jonas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, Germany, 2019; Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 3-8394-4762-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128)
• Collana: EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures ; 7
• Classificazione: MB 3200
• Disciplina: 300.1
• Soggetti: Culture - Study and teaching; Emotions - Sociological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Editorial 2 Contents 7 Preface 9 1. Introduction: The Politics of Affective Societies 11 2. Making Things Public and Private: The Affective Co-Production of the Political Sphere 21 3. Conflict and Consent: The Political Ambivalences of Affect and Emotions 47 4. Judgment and Contestation: The Affective Life of Norms 83 5. Conclusions: Affective Societies and the Political 105 Bibliography 113 List of Authors 123
• Sommario/riassunto: Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies, which highlights how affect and emotion are present in all aspects of the social. What changes over time and place are the modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. With this line of thinking, the authors are able to gesture towards a new outline of the political.