Pahl, Katrin

Tropes of Transport : Hegel and Emotion - Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 20120229

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Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to what extent mediation—and therefore a certain degree of manipulation but also of sympathy—is constitutive of emotionality. Hegel serves as a particularly helpful interlocutor not only because he offers a sophisticated analysis of mediation, but also because, rather than locating emotion in the heart, he introduces impersonal tropes of transport, such as trembling, release, and shattering.


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oapen_628773 9780810165670

10.26530/oapen_628773 doi

Philosophy Consciousness Emotion Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pathos Phenomenology (philosophy) Protagonist