deserve more than my most sincere thanks. The book has profi ted from my fellowship as a visiting professor at the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at the Freie Universität, Berlin. I have shared versions of chapters at various colloquia and am grateful for the intense discussions and the feedback I received there, in particular at the Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaft of the University of Bonn (thanks to Christian Moser for inviting me), the Kolloquium für Sozialphilosophie at the Humboldt University (thanks to Rahel Jaeggi for the invitation), the Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium of the University of Erfurt (thanks to Bettine Menke and Martin Schäfer for inviting me), the Deutsche Haus of New York University (thanks to Paul North for the invitation), and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley (where I held a fellowship). I have fond memories of the Marxist philosophy group at the University of Bonn, in particular Leander Scholz, because

I would like to suggest that we use the term emotionality instead of emotions. this will avoid the taxonomic impulse at work when we take specific emotions and name them as objects of our inquiries. These taxonomies render emotions more stable than they are and create a hierarchy of the most talked-about or salient emotions (like melancholy, for queer studies, or fear, for political theory). More abstract than emotions, the term emotionality can take on the quality of a name and thus allow us to think together with emotionality the way one may think something through with another person. This essay will define emotionality as minimally as possible so that its particulars are allowed to shift and change.

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