Passions and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781509532742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 140 str.

Paul Ginsborg; Sergio Labate

Opis

The dominant model of democratic politics emphasizes reason at the expense of the passions. Passions have been treated as dangerous, the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue.

Recenzje

'How should we try to fashion our feelings and imaginations across our lives, so that they equip us best to live well together on the scale we need to, is the oldest and deepest challenge in political and religious thinking. Passions and Politics poses that drastic question bravely once again and offers a fresh answer for the epoch of global neoliberalism.'John Dunn, King's College, Cambridge"Optimistic but not reassuring... essential reading for anyone concerned about the media's use of fear and resentment to nudge the political agenda to the right."Morning Star

Spis treści

Acknowledgements ixIntroduction 1Boys, Girls and a Dog in Front of Vinca Cemetery 1The Seductive Power of Neoliberal Passions 41. The Debate on Passions 12The Ancient History of Passions 12Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza 15Passions' Active Function: Feminism 26Governing and Combining Passions 312. Political Romanticism and Neoliberal Romanticism 39Political Romanticism 39Consumer Capitalism and Neoliberal Romanticism 44Mobilising Passions 523. Politics and Passions, Today 61Constitutional Wisdom 61Machiavellian Monkeys 65The Dignity of the Politician 75The double crisis of passions: Representation and participation 82Conclusions 914. Familial Passions and the Passion for the State 95Familial love 95Passions for the Family and the Failure of Republican Pedagogy in Italy 107In reverse 112Conclusion 117Postscript 121Notes 126Index 143

O autorze

Paul Ginsborg is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence.Sergio Labate is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Macerata.