The Politics of Affective Societies: An Interdisciplinary Essay

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective and hence destabilizing. While the authors of this book agree that significant changes are happening, they remain skeptical that contemporary democratic theory offers the adequate tools to sufficiently understand these shifts. They propose to reframe the debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies - claiming that in all aspects of the social, affect and emotion are present. What changes over time and place are modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. In this line of thinking, this book offers a now outline of the political.

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- 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

Frontmatter --Editorial --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

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.

Frontmatter --Editorial --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