SOCIOLOGY EMOTIONS

This paper is concerned with the place of emotion in knowledge and the ways in which a consideration of emotion contributes to an understand ing of embodied knowledge practices. Whether acknowledged or not, all knowledge practices are emotional. The positive valuation of emotion i s considered in traditions such as phenomenology, paying particular at tention to the significance of feeling combining, as it does, the affe ctive and the sensual. Feeling makes us aware of the relationality of knowledge, and it opens up the possibility of creative and open forms of relations between self and other in knowledge practices.