The Politics of Affective Societies

An Interdisciplinary Essay

Bibliographic Data

ID5816361
AuthorsJonas Bens (0000-0003-3485-0436), Aletta Diefenbach (0000-0001-5833-9144), T Johns (0000-0001-5942-5685), Thomas John (0000-0002-6545-4519), Antje Kahl, Hauke Lehmann, Matthias Lüthjohann, Friederike Oberkrome, Hans Ingvar Roth (0000-0002-5183-9856), Hans Roth, Gabriel Scheidecker (0000-0002-4461-1773), Gerhard Thonhauser (0000-0002-6592-1180), Nur Yasemin Ural (0000-0001-5101-1170), Dina Wahba (0000-0002-7441-9520), Robert Walter-Jochum, M Ragip Zik
Year2019
Pages128
Publication date2019-09-08
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Politics of Affective Societies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherTranscript Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.14361/9783839447628
OpenAlexW4211073435
Open LibraryOL28353678M
ISBN9783839447628
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited41

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

Affect · Affect (linguistics) · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive reframing · Deliberation · Democracy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Cultural studies · Emotions · Political sociology · sociological aspects