Prompted by the 'affective turn' within the entire spectrum of the social sciences, this books brings together the twin disciplines of political psychology and the political sociology of emotions to explore the complex relationship between politics and emotion at both the mass and individual level with special focus on cases of political tension. A role call of contributors fro...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·康普雷迪斯 | 作者 尼古拉斯?康普雷迪斯（Nikolas Kompridis），1953年生，加拿大哲学家和政治理论家，澳大利亚天主教大学哲学和政治思想研究教授兼社会公正研究所基金会主任，对哲学和政治理论有着广泛研究。他重申“哲学浪漫主义”传统，并致力于政治的审美方面的研究。他的著作涉及社会和政治思想、美学和文化哲学的各种问题，其思考通常以反思性“接受”和“世界敞显”概念为核心。代表著作有《批判与揭显：过去与未来间的批判理论》《哲学浪漫主义》以及《政治思想中的审美转向》等。 谢卓婷 | 译者 谢卓婷，长沙理工大学教师，上海交通大学比较文学博士研究生，研究领域：马克思主义美学。有多篇政治与美学方面的学术论文及译文发表。

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksep...(展开全部)

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksep...(展开全部)

It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to un...(展开全部)

The paradoxical claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers almost simultaneous...(展开全部)

The paradoxical claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers almost simultaneous...(展开全部)