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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346051503321

Autore

Bens Jonas <p>Jonas Bens, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

The Politics of Affective Societies : An Interdisciplinary Essay / Jonas Bens, Aletta Diefenbach, Thomas John, Antje Kahl, Hauke Lehmann, Matthias Lüthjohann, Friederike Oberkrome, Hans Roth, Gabriel Scheidecker, Gerhard Thonhauser, Nur Yasemin Ural, Dina Wahba, Robert Walter-Jochum, M. Ragip Zik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019

ISBN

9783839447628

3839447623

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128)

Collana

EmotionsKulturen / EmotionCultures

Classificazione

MB 3200

Disciplina

300.1

Soggetti

Politics

Affect

Emotion

Culture

Cultural Theory

Ethnology

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Studies

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.