A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence.
A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language & how language shapes our social & political existence.
Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.
"Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in …
Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and i…
"This volume examines the interplay between affect theory and rhetorical persuasion in mass media communication. It is divided into three sections--affect theory, general case studies, and case studies on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election--and offers perspectives from authors …