Critical theory and feeling
The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School
by Simon Mussell, Darrow Schecter
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This book explores the crucial role played by feeling and affect within the early work of the Frankfurt School. Engaging with recent developments in the field of affect theory, the author argues that critical theory has always had an affective politics at its heart. While one of the leading legacies of the Frankfurt School aligns it with a rationalist critique of ideology and mass culture, this book draws attention to critical theory's affective, extra-rational side. Aiming to move beyond conventional readings of key texts, Critical theory and feeling instead addresses a selection of topics that meet at the intersection of critique and affect - melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, mimesis, objects. Such themes have received little attention since the philosophical appropriation and gradual de-politicization of critical theory. Against this background, the author strives to re-establish the connection between thought and feeling, and to restate the political, visceral, and vital demands of the early Frankfurt School. Bringing contemporary theory and interpretation to bear on the work of key thinkers including Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch and Kracauer, Critical theory and feeling outlines both how and why any renewal of critical theory today needs to seriously reckon with the politics of affect. This volume will prove an excellent resource to advanced students, researchers, and leading scholars working primarily in critical theory, variants of Marxist social and political thought, and affect theory. Readers from related disciplines such as psychology, literary theory, and the sociology of emotions will also find much to engage with in this book.
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This book explores the crucial role played by feeling and affect within the early work of the Frankfurt School. Engaging with recent developments in the field of affect theory, the author argues that critical theory has always had an affective politics at its heart. While one of the leading legacies of the Frankfurt School aligns it with a rationalist critique of ideology and mass culture, this book draws attention to critical theory's affective, extra-rational side. Aiming to move beyond conventional readings of key texts, Critical theory and feeling instead addresses a selection of topics that meet at the intersection of critique and affect - melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, mimesis, objects. Such themes have received little attention since the philosophical appropriation and gradual de-politicization of critical theory. Against this background, the author strives to re-establish the connection between thought and feeling, and to restate the political, visceral, and vital demands of the early Frankfurt School. Bringing contemporary theory and interpretation to bear on the work of key thinkers including Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch and Kracauer, Critical theory and feeling outlines both how and why any renewal of critical theory today needs to seriously reckon with the politics of affect. This volume will prove an excellent resource to advanced students, researchers, and leading scholars working primarily in critical theory, variants of Marxist social and political thought, and affect theory. Readers from related disciplines such as psychology, literary theory, and the sociology of emotions will also find much to engage with in this book.
Author Biography
Darrow Schecter is Reader in Intellectual History in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date November 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526105714 / 1526105713
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 110 USD
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesCritical Theory and Contemporary Society
- Reference Code7808
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