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.

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The Politics of Affective Societies
An Interdisciplinary Essay
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An Interdisciplinary Essay
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction. The Politics of Affective Societies
- 2. Making Things Public and Private. The Affective Co-Production of the Political Sphere
- 3. Conflict and Consent. The Political Ambivalences of Affect and Emotions
- 4. Judgment and Contestation. The Affective Life of Norms
- 5. Conclusions. Affective Societies and the Political
- Bibliography
- List of Authors
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