The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power

By Donovan O. Schaefer

Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108732119
• ISBN13: 9781108732116
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"