Homo Emotionalis: On the Systematization of Emotions in Politics

ISBN-13: 9783658390259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 150 str.

Timm Beichelt

Opis

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context. For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in their totality constitute Homo Emotionalis: binary emotions, basic emotions, reflexive emotions. They correspond to individual-psychological stages of development, but are also relevant in the social and political handling of emotions. The interplay of emotion types and social constellations leads to different modes of political action, which shape different forms of emotional politics. In each case, individual logics emerge along which emotional politics is pursued. With its interdisciplinary focus, this volume is aimed at political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists.

Spis treści

Preliminary remarks and acknowledgements.- Introduction.- First approach: normative vs. utility-oriented approaches to emotions.- The social dimension of emotions: homo emotionalis.- Emotions and political action.- Summary: towards a dynamic conception of political emotions.

O autorze

Dr. Timm Beichelt is Professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.

Blurb

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context. For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in the totality constitute the Homo Emotionalis model: binary emotions, basic emotions, reflexive emotions. They correspond to individual-psychological stages of development, but are also relevant in the social and political handling of emotions. The interplay of emotion types and social constellations leads to different modes of political action, which shape different forms of emotional politics. In each case, individual logics emerge along which emotional politics are pursued. With its interdisciplinary focus, this volume is aimed at political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists.

The author

Dr. Timm Beichelt is Professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically different from a conventional translation.