Volume 18, Numbers 1-2

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This issue address the role of the emotions in contemporary critical theory and practice. Are there particular emotions critics or theorists feel? Are criticism and sympathy mutually exclusive? What is the place of emotions in posthumanism? Are we returning to an aesthetics of feelings? Is this a new aesthetics? To what extent are feelings and sentiments back in the focus of critical theory? What does the exploration of emotional representation look like after the global turn in theory? What does it mean to feel for the other in the age of transnationalism? What is the place of emotion after the postmodern deconstruction of the sentimental subject?  

Contents

Alphonso Lingis
Strange Emotions in Contemporary Theory

Magdalena Ostas
Kant with Michael Fried: Feeling, Absorption, and Interiority in the Critique of Judgment

Patrick Lee Miller
Psychoanalysis as Spirituality

Sjoerd van Tuinen
A Thymotic Left? Peter Sloterdijk and the Psychopolitics of Ressentiment

Patrick Colm Hogan
A Passion for Plot: Prolegomena to Affective Narratology

Peter Williams
Living ‘As and Where We Are’: Feeling and the Emotions as Situated Poetics

David Schalkwyk
Is Love an Emotion? Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra

John C. Freeman
Interrogating the Soliloquist: Does It Really Go without Saying?

Frances L. Restuccia
The Virtue of Blushing: Assimilating Anxiety into Shame in Haneke’s Caché

Sandhya Shukla
Loving the Other in 1970s Harlem: Race, Space, and Place in Aaron Loves Angela

Eric Dean Rasmussen
E. L. Doctorow’s Vicious Eroticism: Dangerous Affect in The Book of Daniel

Jeffrey J. Williams
Uneasy Work

Terry Caesar
Diary of a Retirement

Lynn Z. Bloom
Critical Emoticons