Dialectics Deep Dive 4: Finishing Spinoza, Beginning Deleuze & Guattari
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Spinoza's Account in Part Three of the Affects
Spinoza is at the root of all affect theory, and dumtilos and guatari are very important in bringing that forward into the twentieth and 20 first centuries. He talks about the affects as bodily states, which should also be understood as transitions in their own right. And he gives a sort of tripartite structure of human emotions: desire, pleasure and pain. So this is the basic scheme of his analysis of the emotions.
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