Abstract
Affectivity has become an operative concept for a variety of analyses of our everyday media-based public communications. However, it often remains unclear what affectivity is and how it can be used for analysing media-based public discussions. To clarify the role of affectivity in such analyses, I take a look back to the classical phenomenological analyses of affectivity provided by Edmund Husserl. I argue that based on Husserl’s analyses, affectivity is essentially a relation between the object and the affected subject evoking (sometimes emotional) responses in the subject. Accordingly, the role of affectivity in the opinion formation and other similar processes in media-based public discussions can be analysed as contingent sedimentations of the object’s such relations to the subject. As my analysis demonstrates, analyses of affectivity in the context of media-based communications do not capture their research object—affectivity—if affectivity is conceived as a feature of the media contents and not as a modality of experience.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Cocks on Dunghills – Wollstonecraft and Gouges on the Women’s Revolution
- Affectivity in Media-Based Public Discussions: A Critical Phenomenological Analysis
- Rationalizing: Kant on Moral Self-Deception
- The Stoic Theory of Sign and the Semantic Modulation of Models
- Book Reviews
- Pihlström, Sami: Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other
- Møller, Sofie: Kant’s Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason
- Eriksen, Cecilie: Moral Change: Dynamics, Structure, and Normativity
- Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal: Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition