Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion

POLITICAL AFFECT:Connecting the Social and the Somatic
John Protevi
University of Minnesota Press | 264 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-6509-9 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-6510-5 | paperback | $25.00

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, John Protevi develops a perspective he calls political
physiology to indicate that subjectivity is socially conditioned and
sometimes bypassed in favor of a connection of the social and the
somatic, as with the politically triggered emotions of rage and panic.

"Are you bored with both a social science that runs from complexity
theory in neuroscience and biology and an interpretive approach that
either brackets nature and bodies or reduces social communication to
organic process?  If so, Political Affect is the book for you.  John
Protevi not only draws Deleuze and complexity theory into fruitful
conversations about affect, attractors and emergence, he carries the
result into valuable explorations of recent events. A timely and
compelling book. " -William E. Connolly, author of Capitalism and
Christianity, American Style

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/P/protevi_political.html

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