Affect Theory Books

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Cruel Optimism Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,359 ratings — published 2011
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,264 ratings — published 2004
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 700 ratings — published 2002
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The Affect Theory Reader The Affect Theory Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 359 ratings — published 2010
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Ordinary Affects Ordinary Affects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 876 ratings — published 2007
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Ugly Feelings Ugly Feelings (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 455 ratings — published 2005
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An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 593 ratings — published 2003
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Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 351 ratings — published 2002
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,637 ratings — published 2006
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Depression: A Public Feeling Depression: A Public Feeling (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 490 ratings — published 2012
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The Promise of Happiness The Promise of Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,237 ratings — published 2010
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The Transmission of Affect The Transmission of Affect (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 92 ratings — published 2003
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Sex, or the Unbearable (Theory Q) Sex, or the Unbearable (Theory Q)
by (shelved 6 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 190 ratings — published 2013
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Desire/Love Desire/Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 301 ratings — published 2012
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Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 363 ratings — published 2007
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Loss: The Politics of Mourning Loss: The Politics of Mourning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 59 ratings — published 2002
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The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 184 ratings — published 2008
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Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 338 ratings — published 2012
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Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 217 ratings — published 2019
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Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 56 ratings — published 2005
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Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 30 ratings — published 2008
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Compassion (Essays from the English Institute) Compassion (Essays from the English Institute)
by (shelved 3 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 54 ratings — published 2004
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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 113 ratings — published 2020
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,893 ratings — published 1994
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The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.62 — 40 ratings — published 1991
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Intimacy (A Critical Inquiry Book) Intimacy (A Critical Inquiry Book)
by (shelved 3 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 44 ratings — published 2000
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The Agony of Eros The Agony of Eros (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,062 ratings — published 2017
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They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 380 ratings — published
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Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,438 ratings — published 2010
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The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2003
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The Hundreds The Hundreds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 240 ratings — published 2019
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The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 32 ratings — published 2013
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Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 162 ratings — published 2009
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Affect Imagery Consciousness: Volume I: The Positive Affects Affect Imagery Consciousness: Volume I: The Positive Affects (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 1962
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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 555 ratings — published 1997
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Politics of Affect Politics of Affect (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 80 ratings — published 2015
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The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
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The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 158 ratings — published 2000
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The Forms of the Affects The Forms of the Affects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 79 ratings — published 2014
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Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Volume 7) (Posthumanities) Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Volume 7) (Posthumanities)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.48 — 27 ratings — published 2009
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Encountering Affect Encountering Affect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2014
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The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.65 — 55 ratings — published 2007
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Citizen: An American Lyric Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,386 ratings — published 2014
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Living a Feminist Life Living a Feminist Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,230 ratings — published 2017
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Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 42 ratings — published 2015
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States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 303 ratings — published 1995
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Shame and Its Sisters Shame and Its Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 83 ratings — published 1995
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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College) Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 459 ratings — published 2015
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Identification Papers: Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture (Texts; 32) Identification Papers: Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture (Texts; 32)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published 1995
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After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (South Atlantic Quarterly) After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (South Atlantic Quarterly)
by (shelved 2 times as affect-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 67 ratings — published 2007
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Gilles Deleuze
“desiring-production is one and the same thing as social production”
Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“The violence of Hegel’s writing style consists in not allowing the reader to translate the conflicts of a proposition into the higher synthesis of a stable meaning. It interferes with the reader’s wish to be done with the text…. Hegel frustrates the reader’s desire to withdraw as quickly as possible from the contact with the other into the aloof identity and superior authority of the I. Speculative science asks us to “be with [zusammensein]” being (apprehended and articulated as subject) to sympathize with its self-disruption without losing our own beat, to join hands with it and dance.”
Katrin Pahl, Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion

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