Deleuze and Affect
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-3995-6292-8 (ISBN)
Description
Deleuze and Affect brings together work from emerging and established scholars to address and reassess the role of affect in Deleuze's work and its legacy in the critical humanities. Affects are not merely new sensations; they are, more radically, new sensibilities. They therefore have the potential to redefine the very conditions of experience, to open new relations to the world, and to reshape each discipline.
The multidisciplinary contributors to this volume place affect squarely at the intersection of diverse fields and disciplines from philosophy and literature, visual studies and film studies, art and architecture, through to politics and economics.
In an age in which the sciences unlock more and more secrets of a body that is also, paradoxically, becoming more and more precarious, this volume examines the stakes and spectrum of what it means 'to affect' and 'to be affected'.
The multidisciplinary contributors to this volume place affect squarely at the intersection of diverse fields and disciplines from philosophy and literature, visual studies and film studies, art and architecture, through to politics and economics.
In an age in which the sciences unlock more and more secrets of a body that is also, paradoxically, becoming more and more precarious, this volume examines the stakes and spectrum of what it means 'to affect' and 'to be affected'.
Reviews / Votes
D. J. S. Cross has brought together the most diverse perspectives on and therefore the most thorough explication of Deleuze's thinking on affect. In considering the onto-epistemology of affect from the political to the clinical, from the metaphysical foundation of identity to the reconceptualisation of the body without organs, this collection of essays dazzles with insight. If Deleuze's writings always have invited us to live and think more creatively, surely there is no more pressing a time than now for that invitation to be offered again. Along with D. J. S Cross's rich and instructive introduction, the essays of Deleuze and Affect generously extend that invitation. -- Patricia Clough, City University of New YorkMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 black and white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-6292-8 (9781399562928)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun.
Content
Introductions: Deleuze AND Affect
D. J. S. Cross
Part I: Spinoza and the Problem of Affection
1. The Evolution of Deleuze's Concept of Affect
Daniel W. Smith
2. In God or in Chaos: The Difference between Spinoza's and Deleuze's Conceptions of Beatitude
Leonard Lawlor
3. Deleuze and the Many Faces of Affect: An Epistemo-Ethical Account of What Affects Do and Why We Need Them
Janae Sholtz
Part II: Sociopolitics of Affect
4. The Passion of Abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the Affective Politics of Fascism
Aidan Tynan
5. The Production of Reality: Deleuze & Work, via Affected Labour
Alexia Cameron
Part III: Affects Critical and Clinical
6. The Birth of the Clinical in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Patricio Landaeta
7. Deleuze and Bergman: Persona and the Affection-Image
Richard Rushton
8. Affective Dissonance and Architectural (Dis)Repair
Helene Frichot
Part IV: Surfaces, Inscriptions, Affects
9. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Affect
Claire Colebrook
10. Between Derrida and Deleuze: Bodies without Organs
Nibras Chehayed
11. Deleuze's Khoratic Fingers
James Martell
Notes on Contributors
Index
D. J. S. Cross
Part I: Spinoza and the Problem of Affection
1. The Evolution of Deleuze's Concept of Affect
Daniel W. Smith
2. In God or in Chaos: The Difference between Spinoza's and Deleuze's Conceptions of Beatitude
Leonard Lawlor
3. Deleuze and the Many Faces of Affect: An Epistemo-Ethical Account of What Affects Do and Why We Need Them
Janae Sholtz
Part II: Sociopolitics of Affect
4. The Passion of Abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the Affective Politics of Fascism
Aidan Tynan
5. The Production of Reality: Deleuze & Work, via Affected Labour
Alexia Cameron
Part III: Affects Critical and Clinical
6. The Birth of the Clinical in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Patricio Landaeta
7. Deleuze and Bergman: Persona and the Affection-Image
Richard Rushton
8. Affective Dissonance and Architectural (Dis)Repair
Helene Frichot
Part IV: Surfaces, Inscriptions, Affects
9. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Affect
Claire Colebrook
10. Between Derrida and Deleuze: Bodies without Organs
Nibras Chehayed
11. Deleuze's Khoratic Fingers
James Martell
Notes on Contributors
Index