Political Affect : Connecting the Social and the Somatic /

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Political Affect investigates the relationship between the social and the somatic: how our bodies, minds, and social settings are intricately linked. Bringing together concepts from science, philosophy, and politics, he develops a perspective he calls political physiology to indicate that subjectivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Protevi, John, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political science > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A concept of bodies politic
  • Above, below, and alongside the subject
  • Bodies politic
  • Bodies politic as organisms
  • The organism in Aristotle and Kant
  • The anorganic body in Deleuze and Guattari
  • Love, rage, and fear
  • Terri Schiavo : the somatic body politic
  • The Columbine High School massacre : the transverse body politic
  • Hurricane Katrina : the governmental body politic
  • Conclusion.

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