HHS Review Symposium on Ruth Leys The Ascent of Affect

A forthcoming review symposium in History of the Human Sciences on Ruth Ley’s recent book The Ascent of Affect may interest AHP readers. Contributions to the symposium include:

Must we mean what we do? – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect,” by Clive Barnett.

Affect theory’s alternative genealogies – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect,” by Carolyn Pedwell.

From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect,” by Rob Boddice.

Affect, genealogy, history – Review Symposium on Ruth Leys’s The Ascent of Affect,” by Elizabeth A. Wilson.

Reply to my commentators – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect,” by Ruth Leys.

About Jacy Young

Jacy Young is a professor at Quest University Canada. A critical feminist psychologist and historian of psychology, she is committed to critical pedagogy and public engagement with feminist psychology and the history of the discipline.