Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Techniques of the Affect Lab -- Chapter 1. William James's Planchette -- Chapter 2. Books of Faces -- Chapter 3. The Prison Dynograph -- Chapter 4. E-Meter Metaphysics -- Conclusion: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Empathy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
"The Affect Lab examines the use of measurement tools to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Offering a new critique of affect and affect theory, Grant Bollmer demonstrates how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research"-- Provided by publisher
