The theory of affects implies that affects can transform societies and play an important role in resisting existing injustices and inequalities. Direk argues that the political and moral legitimization of the use of negative emotions results in hostile environments for the public use of reason and undermines liberal education and free speech. She explains in her talk on what grounds affect theories endorse a politics of affects and how negative emotions such as shame, disgust, and anger are turned into political instruments to fight the “injurious speech” as it is understood by Butler.

ZEYNEP DIREK
Professor of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul

JULIA ALLERSTORFER-HERTEL
ALOISIA MOSER
Gastgeberinnen

Vortrag in englischer Sprache

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