E-co-affectivity : exploring pathos at life's material interfaces / Marjolein Oele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oele, Marjolein, author.

Series:

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

"E-Co-Affectivity is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird feathers, the ontogenesis of human life through the placenta, the bare interface of human skin, and the porous materiality of soil. Combining biology, phenomenology, Ancient Greek thought, new materialisms, environmental philosophy, and affect studies, Marjolein Oele thinks through concrete, living places that show the receptive, responsive power of living beings to be affected and to affect. She focuses on these localized interfaces to explain how affectivity emerges in places that are always evolving, creative, porous, and fluid. Every interface is material, but is also "more" than its current materiality in co-creating place, time, and being. After extensively describing the effects of the milieu and community within which each example of affectivity takes place, in the final chapter Oele adds a prescriptive, ethical lens that formulates a new epoch beyond the Anthropocene, one that is sensitive to the larger ecological, communal concerns at stake"

Contents:

Plants and Affectivity: The Middle-Voiced Lives of Plants

Animals and Affectivity: Aesthēsis, Touch, Trauma and Bird Feathers

Generative Human Affectivity: The Placenta as Place-and-Time-Making-In-Between

Skin and Human Sapient Affectivity: Skin, Webbed Existence, Temporal Depth and Trust

Eco-Affectivity Beyond the Anthropocene: On Soil and Soil Pores.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438478623

1438478623