Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery: Between Charisma and Trickery

ISBN-13: 9780367522537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

Horvath, Agnes

Opis

Presenting studies of contemporary political figures, this book employs the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’ to shed light on the rise of the - often anonymous - political leader, looking beyond the commonly invoked notion of ‘charisma’ to revisit the question of political leadership in an increasingly populist era.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: On Charis and Charisma;  1. Beyond Charisma: Catacombing Sensual Governance by a Painful Breaking of Human Ties;  2. Charisma: From Divine Gift to the Democratic Leader-shop;  Part II: Plato’s Statesman;  3. The Virtues of Leadership: Beyond the Pleasure Principle;  4. Constituting Power: Plato’s Weaving of Human Emotions;  5. Plato’s Statesman: Defending Phronesis from Coding;  Part III: Contemporary Case Studies;  6. A Study in Charisma and Trickery: The Case of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA;  7. The Trickster Logic in Latin-America: Leadership in Argentina and Brazil;  8. Political Leadership in Contemporary France: The Case of Emmanuel Macron;  9. The Failure of Democracy in Italy: From Berlusconi to Salvini;  10. Viktor Orbán’s Leadership: The Prince, the Political Father, and the Doomed Trickster;  11. Duplicity, Corruption and Exceptionalism in the Romanian Experience of Modernity;  Concluding Comments