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Sense and Affect introduces a comprehensive new vision for philosophy, and by co-implication, a new way of thinking about modalites from the ethical to the political, the empirical to the aesthetic. The book takes as its starting point an acknowledgement of the important insight contributed by Jacques Derrida, and writers having a proximity to Derrida's deconstructionist project, that to mean is to transform, that to be is to repeat and to repeat is alter. However, it questions the deconstructive assumption that this presencing-effacing repetition is necessarily and irreducibly a disturbing, traumatic tension. The book undertakes a radicalizing rethinking of the concept of affectivity, in order to reveal a simultaneously more mobile and less polarizing basis of meaning than that proposed by Derrida. A key focus of the work is a critical examination of philosophical justifications of notions of blame, anger and forgiveness. This book should be especially of interest to those following contemporary movements in postmodern philosophy, psychology and literature.