structure of feeling

is a 'structure' insofar as the element of feeling make up a set, with specific internal relations, at once interlocking and in tension.

We are then defining these elements as a 'structure': as a set, with specific internal relations, at once interlocking and in tension'

is a kind of practical consciousness. That is, it is the affective elements of consciousness: Not feeling against thought, but thought as felt and feeling as thought.

Structures of feeling: 'It is that we are concerned with meanings and values as they are actively lived and felt, and the relations.. We are talking about characteristic elements of impulse, restraint, and tone... specifically affective elements of consciousness and relationships: not feeling against thought, but thought as felt and feeling as thought: practical consciousness of a present kind, in a living and inter-relating continuity' (p.132).

is a social experience as distinct from other social semantic formations which have been precipitated and are more evidently and more immediately available.

For structures of feeling can be defined as social experiences in solution, as distinct from other social semantic formations which have been precipitated and are more evidently and more immediately available'

is a social experience still in process which on the one hand is not yet recognized as social and taken to be private, idiosyncratic, and even isolating, but on the other, in analysis shows itself to have the character of a structure.

We are also defining a social experience still in process, often indeed not yet recognized as social but taken to be private, idiosyncratic, and even isolating, but which in analysis (though rarely otherwise) has its emergent, connecting, and dominant characteristics, indeed its specific hierarchies'

is a structured formation at the edge of semantic availability... a pre-formation.

It is not mere flux, but leads to new 'starting-points' and new 'conclusions''It is a structured formation which, because it is at the very edge of semantic availability, has many characteristics of a pre-formation, until specific articulations new semantic figures are discovered in material practice: often, as it happens, in relatively isolated ways, which are only later seen to compose a significant (often in fact minority) generation: this often, in turn, the generation that substantially connects to its successor'

is characterized as a concern with specific feelings, specific rhythms which account for a specific kind of sociality which are only conceivable insofar as they haven't been reduced analytically into set categories of social experience.

We need a way of acknowledging and welcoming the specificity of these elements 'specific feelings, specific rhythms and yet to find ways of recognizing their specific kinds of sociality, thus preventing that extraction from social experience which is conceivable only when social experience itself has been categorically (and at root) historically reduced'

is meanings and values as actively lived and felt... matters of impulse, restraint, and tone.

structure of feeling, n.All

structure of feeling