From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12220488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Boddice (0000-0003-2591-9104, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 126-133 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0952695119888984 |
| OpenAlex | W3003649714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Ruth Leys’s book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling. To most of this, Leys holds a match and allows us to stand in awe at the conflagration. In an ideal world, the psychologists would be watching too. Emotion research in psychological bowers is the heir to an epistemological inertia born of force of personality. Leys’s book is a genealogy of ideas, yes, but it is also, and principally, a genealogy of academic clientelism, and of men (mostly) whose convictions, assumptions, arrogance, politics, and outright scientism have permitted, imposed, and policed two generations of faulty thinking. The jig is up
Affect (linguistics · Epistemology · Historicism · Communication · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Emotions Research · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |