Is the Body an Immanent Domain? On Postsecular Affects

Authors

  • Jack Dudley Mount Saint Mary's University

Keywords:

Affect, Postsecularism, Secularism, Materialism, The Body

Abstract

What critical possibilities and problems emerge when affect theory and postsecularism are brought together? This article explores this question and its implications for literary theory. Can affect at once open a space beyond rationality while at the same time remaining emphatically materialist and foreclosing feelings of religious transcendence or automatically subsuming them within materialism? What might be the critical and cultural authority of postsecular affects, of feeling religiously? I suggest that if past modes of public arbitration for such questions are declining, literature itself can serve as the site for contesting new ways of being and feeling in the contemporary world.

Author Biography

Jack Dudley, Mount Saint Mary's University

Assistant Professor, Department of English

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Published

2016-01-31

How to Cite

Dudley, J. (2016). Is the Body an Immanent Domain? On Postsecular Affects. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (14), 26–44. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/14005

Issue

No. 14 (2016): Thinking about Affect in Culture and Art

Section

Monograph

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