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This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: figure or the figural in Discourse, Figure, unbound intensities in his libidinal writings, the feeling of the differend in The Differend, affect and infantia in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the differend between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as techlogy and post-human studies).Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-101474257887
ISBN-139781474257886
eBay Product ID (ePID)222132025
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FormatHardback, Hardback (Stationery)
LanguageEnglish
TopicPhilosophy
GenrePhilosophy
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Place of PublicationLondon
Edited byJulie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, Mark Stoholski
Author BiographyJulie Gaillard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University, and an Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow at Morehouse College. She is preparing a dissertation on proper names, referentiality and mediality in French literature and arts at the turn of the twenty-first century. Claire Nouvet is associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She is the co-editor of Minima Memoria: In the Wake of Jean-Francois Lyotard (Stanford, 2007), the author of Enfances Narcisse (Galilee, 2009), Abelard et Heloise: la passion de la maitrise (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009), and the editor of Literature and the Ethical Question (Yale French Studies, 1991). Mark Stoholski is a Mellon/ACLS dissertation completion fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University and a candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is preparing a dissertation on affect via the ancient sophists and their reception in modern literature and psychoanalysis.
Date of Publication21/04/2016
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom