Feeling in Theory by Terada, Rei ISBN 0674004930
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Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the 'death of the subject' would also seem to mean the death of feeling. This work transforms the interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting, instead, a positive relation between the 'death of the subject' and the existence of emotion.
Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the 'death of the subject' described in recent years by theorists such as Derrida, de Man, and Deleuze would also seem to mean the death of feeling. This revolutionary work transforms the burgeoning interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting, instead, a positive relation between the 'death of the subject' and the very existence of emotion. Reading the writings of Derrida and de Man - theorists often seen as emotionally contradictory and cold - Terada finds grounds for construing emotion as nonsubjective. This project offers fresh interpretations of deconstruction's most important texts, and of Continental and Anglo-American philosophers from Descartes to Delcuze and Dennett. At the same time, it revitalizes poststructuralist theory by deploying its methodologies in a new field, the philosophy of emotion, to reach a startling conclusion: if we really were subjects, we would have no emotions at all. Engaging debates in philosophy, literary criticism, psychology, and cognitive science from a poststructuralist and deconstructive perspective, Terada's work is essential for the renewal of critical thought in our day.
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[edit] Title
Feeling in Theory
[edit] Author
Terada, Rei
[edit] ISBN
0674004930
[edit] Published
19/07/2001
[edit] Publisher
Harvard University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
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30.95 (GBP)
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