The Politics of Passion

Reframing Affect and Emotion in Global Modernity

Dirk Wiemann editor Lars Eckstein editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:10th Jan '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Politics of Passion cover

The demise of the modern self-centred subject does not engender a waning but a politicisation of affect: The site of passion is now no longer the individual’s interiority but the contact zone of intersubjective encounters. The public and political status of the emotions thus becomes apparent, making visible how affects are embedded in and shaped by discursive regimes. Neither spontaneous nor overdetermined, passion is therefore not the «other» of reason but a deeply social energy that fuels political, cultural and everyday practices. The Politics of Passion combines theoretical reframings of affect and emotion in global modernity with analyses of concrete instances of politics of passion from above or from below. By including debates and struggles in Western, Asian and African contexts, the volume attends to the actual plurality of affective rationalities and politics beyond a Eurocentric framework.

ISBN: 9783631601969

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 420g

233 pages

New edition