Feeling in Theory: Emotion After the "Death of the Subject"

by Rei Terada

Book Overview

Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the "death of the subject" described in recent years by theorists such as Derrida, de Man, and Deleuze would also seem to mean the death of feeling. This revolutionary work transforms the burgeoning interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting, instead, a positive relation between the "death of the subject" and the very existence of emotion.

Reading the writings of Derrida and de...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011279
• ISBN13: 9780674011274
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"