Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat | Book Review
Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) by Hannah Proctor.
‘How much philosophical hay can be made with an empirical scythe?’ A review of Ruth Leys’ The Ascent of Affect
How should thinkers across the disciplines conceptualise emotional life? What role do theories and histories of affect play in how we conceptualise cultural analysis, or in how we think about aesthetics? Birgit Breidenbach reviews Ruth
‘Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel’: Book Review
Sierra Moreno reviews Laura Otis’ Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel (Oxford University Press: 2019). To feel an emotion is to experience a movement. When something affects us emotionally, we might describe it