Hurt Feelings: Affect, World, and Time in As You Like It and Early Modern Studies

Engaging current affect theory through the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin, "Hurt Feelings" argues that affect should be understood neither as a form of embodiment nor of sympathetic correspondence but as a state of incommensurability between self and world th...

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Published inELH Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 955 - 977
Main Author Pye, Christopher
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2023
Subjects
Cognition & reasoning
Consciousness
Emotions
Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)
Ontology
Theater
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Summary:Engaging current affect theory through the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin, "Hurt Feelings" argues that affect should be understood neither as a form of embodiment nor of sympathetic correspondence but as a state of incommensurability between self and world that is at the same time the originative condition of those categories; rather than extending the self into the world, affect concerns the possibility of world as such. The essay brings such claims to bear on a scene of miraculous conversion in As You Like It that suggests both the grounds of theater's affective hold and affect's inextricable relation to our status as historical beings.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2023.a914012