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The Logic of Emotionality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Katrin Pahl
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I would like to suggest that we use the term emotionality instead of emotions. this will avoid the taxonomic impulse at work when we take specific emotions and name them as objects of our inquiries. These taxonomies render emotions more stable than they are and create a hierarchy of the most talked-about or salient emotions (like melancholy, for queer studies, or fear, for political theory). More abstract than emotions, the term emotionality can take on the quality of a name and thus allow us to think together with emotionality the way one may think something through with another person. This essay will define emotionality as minimally as possible so that its particulars are allowed to shift and change.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 130 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Emotions , October 2015 , pp. 1457 - 1466
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2015

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