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1 online resource (x, 211 pages) |
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Introduction: Emotion after the "Death of the Subject" -- 1. Cogito and the History of the Passions. Philosophy of Emotion. Cogito and the History of the Passions. Feeling and Phenomena. Imaginary Seductions. Idea-Signs of Passion -- 2. Pathos (Allegories of Emotion). Emotion and Figure. Safety and the Sublime. The Allegory of Emotion. Inner Voices, Hostile Strangers: Moral and Social Feelings. Emotion Degree Zero -- 3. A Parallel Philosophy. Nobody's Passion: Emotion and the Philosophy of Music. Emotional Reference. Why You Can't Make a Subject That Feels Pain. From Affection to Affect. The Regime of Affect -- 4. Psyche, Inc.: Derridean Emotion after de Man. Hardly Thinking. Psyche and Prosopopoeia. "The Theater of Petty Passions" L'ame |
| Summary |
Annotation Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the "death of the subject" described in recent years by theorists such as Derrida, de Man, and Deleuze would also seem to mean the death of feeling. This revolutionary work transforms the burgeoning interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting, instead, a positive relation between the "death of the subject" and the very existence of emotion. Reading the writings of Derrida and de Man--theorists often seen as emotionally contradictory and cold--Terada finds grounds for construing emotion as nonsubjective. This project offers fresh interpretations of deconstruction's most important texts, and of Continental and Anglo-American philosophers from Descartes to Deleuze and Dennett. At the same time, it revitalizes poststructuralist theory by deploying its methodologies in a new field, the philosophy of emotion, to reach a startling conclusion: if we really were subjects, we would have no emotions at all. Engaging debates in philosophy, literary criticism, psychology, and cognitive science from a poststructuralist and deconstructive perspective, Terada's work is essential for the renewal of critical thought in our day |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index |
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Subject (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Subject (Philosophy)
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Gefühlstheorie
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Subjekt Philosophie
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Emoties.
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Deconstructie.
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Poststructuralisme.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674044296 |
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0674044290 |
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