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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Emotional Subjects
Chapter 1: Feeling Locked in: The Heart
Chapter 2: Pathos: In Character
Part II: Emotional Syntax
Chapter 3: Release: Projections of Grief
Chapter 4: Rhythm: Half-Sympathetic Speech Acts
Chapter 5: Mutual Acknowledging: A Reading of Love
Chapter 6: Trembling: Trans Fear
Chapter 7: Shattered: A Way of Despair
Conclusion against Emotional Violence
Bibliography
Index
Notes
Katrin Pahl is Assistant Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University.
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