This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: once more, with feeling
1 Thinking through feeling: critical theory and the affective turn
2 Feeling blue: melancholic dispositions and conscious unhappiness
3 A feeling for things: objects, affects, mimesis
4 Expectant emotion and the politics of hope
Coda
Index