The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108732116)

Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.

Author: Donovan O. Schaefer
ISBN-10: 1108732119
ISBN-13: 9781108732116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2019
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d