"Of all the books published on the emotions in the last two decades, Terada’s is the most incisive. Realizing that emotion has become the default position among humanists trying to fend off poststructuralist critique, Terada demonstrates just how wrong a reading they provide of emotion and theory both. Emotion lies at the center of posthumanist discourse (in Derrida, de Man, Deleuze, and others) precisely because emotion 'requires the death of the subject.' In addition to its startling originality and elegant thinking, Feeling in Theory is also one of the few books on the topic to reflect critically on the surge of affect studies in which it participates. It is a remarkable book."

Recommended by Steven Goldsmith, Professor of English and author of Blake's Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions.