AFFECT, FEELING, EMOTION

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

Emotions, feelings, and affects are central to our experience of being human. And yet, philosophers, theorists, and scientists have only gradually come to appreciate their role in understanding human nature in cultural, material, religious, economic, and political contexts. In this advanced seminar for graduate students, we analyze discourses around the “affects,” “feelings,” and “emotions” in philosophical, theoretical, and scientific perspectives – critiquing how these terms are often conflated and working towards a more rigorous typology of their operations.