Critical Theory and Feeling - The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School

Informationen zum Autor Simon Mussell is an independent researcher and editor Klappentext This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect. Zusammenfassung This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia! hope! (un)happiness! objects! and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: once more, with feeling 1 Thinking through feeling: critical theory and the affective turn 2 Feeling blue: melancholic dispositions and conscious unhappiness3 A feeling for things: objects, affects, mimesis 4 Expectant emotion and the politics of hopeCodaIndex

Product details

• Authors: Simon Mussell
• Assisted by: Darrow Schecter (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781526105707
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0570-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contempora; Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contempora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day