E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life's Material Interfaces (Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Oele, Marjolein

ISBN 10: 1438478615 / ISBN 13: 9781438478616

Published by State University of New York Pre, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life's Material Interfaces (Suny Ancient Greek Philosophy)
• Publisher: State University of New York Pre
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438478615
• ISBN 13: 9781438478616
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.

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 the 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 cocreating 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.

About the Author

Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the coeditor (with Gerard Kuperus) of Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations.