Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic Volume 7

by John Protevi

For many philosophers, the rational cognitive (Cartesian) subject defines the human, or at least defines what humans should be. Yet some recent cognitive science, as well as the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, has called into question such individuality and rationality and emphasized social and emotional subjectivity. Understanding such embodied and embedded subjectivity, John Protevi argues, demands the notion of bodies politic.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816665109
• ISBN13: 9780816665105
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"