John Protevi
On his book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic
Cover Interview of February 17, 2010
philosophy /
20th century /
emotions /
aristotle /
neoliberalism /
21st century /
cognition /
kant immanuel /
deleuze gilles /
schiavo terri /
Editor’s note
Originally, this interview ran on the Rorotoko cover page under the headline
“Placing affective cognition in a political context.”
We highlighted two quotes.
On the first page:
“Continental philosophy of science looks at scientific practice as its object of study; it doesn’t incorporate scientific findings in a continental investigation of philosophical problems.”
On the second:
“During the Katrina storm and the days following it, pundits indulged a rhetoric of Hobbesian fantasy. The reality was much more Rousseauean. There was very little, if any, atomized anti-social predation in New Orleans; there was instead massive and spontaneous solidarity born out of empathy for threatened lives.”