現代社会と感情・序説

抄録

The study of emotions has been mainly in the hands of psychologists and physiologists. But the sociological-historical approach to emotions helps to clarify the social, cultural, relational, and rule-embodied factors of emotional feeling. In this paper, it is presented that several emotions, as well as subjectivity, personality, consciousness and individuality, are products of the emergence of new forms of power. It is when disciplinary mechanisms of power have become diffused throughout the social body that emotions have been subjectified and have become an target as the “calculable soul”. Power affects affect in the process of the formation of modern society.