Value in the Emotional Register
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Constitutions of Value: Law, Governance, and Political Ecology, 2023, pp. 295-308
- Issue Date:
- 2023-01-01
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Despite the recent “affective turn” in the humanities and social sciences, which is at least partly to be credited with a renewed scholarly interest in emotion, emotion and affect have significant differences, and affect theorists consciously set affect apart from emotion. While there are a number of ways to understand emotion, this chapter focuses on emotion as feelings. It draws on the recent Elgar Handbook of Law and Emotion, in which the editors write that emotions are things people feel “including anger, remorse, loyalty, empathy, compassion, moral outrage, disgust, and respect”. In writing this reflection the chapter soughs to resist the urge to engage with the chapters in a more “traditional” analytical fashion: by summarising and analysing their central arguments, their form and structure, and distilling their contribution to the literature on value.
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