This volume introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies.

Jan Slaby is Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the Institute of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Christian von Scheve is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Contents

List of figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Affective Societies - Key Concepts - Jan Slaby, Christian von Scheve

I. Affect and Emotion: Charting the Landscape

2 Affect - Jan Slaby, Rainer Mühlhoff

3 Emotion, emotion concept - Christian von Scheve, Jan Slaby

4 Feeling - Gerhard Thonhauser

5 Gefühlsbildung (The formation of feeling) - Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

6 Attachment - Gabriel Scheidecker

7 Atmosphere - Friedlind Riedel

8 Sentiment - Jonas Bens, Olaf Zenker

II. Elaborating Affect

9 Affective arrangement - Jan Slaby

10 Affective disposition - Rainer Mühlhoff

11 Affective practice - Basil Wiesse

12 Affective economy - Hauke Lehmann, Hans Roth, Kerstin Schankweiler

13 Affects of racialization - Tamar Blickstein

14 Affective witnessing - Michael Richardson, Kerstin Schankweiler

15 Writing affect - Anne Fleig

III. Resonances and Repertoires

16 Affective resonance - Rainer Mühlhoff

17 (P)Reenactment - Adam Czirak, Sophie Nikoleit, Friederike Oberkrome, Verena Straub, Robert Walter-Jochum, Michael Wetzels

18 Poetcis of affect - Hermann Kappelhoff, Hauke Lehmann

19 Pathosformel (pathos formula) - Kerstin Schankweiler, Philipp Wüschner

20 Immersion, immersive power - Rainer Mühlhoff, Theresa Schütz

21 Emotion repertoires - Anita von Poser, Edda Heyken, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Eric Hahn

22 Audience emotions - Doris Kolesch, Hubert Knoblauch

IV. Collectives and Contestations

23 Social Collectives - Christian von Scheve

24 Mid¿n moments - Bilgin Ayata, Cilja Harders

25 Affective communities - Veronika Zink

26 Belonging - Dominik Mattes, Omar Kasmani, Marion Acker, Edda Heyken

27 Orders of feeling - Thomas Stodulka

28 Affective publics - Margreth Lünenborg

29 Affective citizenship - Bilgin Ayata

30 Political affect - Jan Slaby, Jonas Bens

Index