Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity

ISBN-13: 9780815383796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Paolo Cossarini; Fernando Vallespin Ona

Opis

In Populism and Passions, twleve scholars engage with discourse analysis, democratic theory, and post structural political thought to study the political logic of passion for contemporary populism.

Recenzje

"Despite the burgeoning growth of populism studies, there are still areas in the field which remain underdeveloped. This volume, through the interdisciplinary study of the relationship between populism and passions, fills a crucial gap in one of those areas. It does so in an insightful, theoretically robust and empirically-informed way, bringing together younger researchers and established scholars. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the populist phenomenon and on the role that passions play in contemporary democratic politics." -Giorgos Katsambekis, Loughborough University

Spis treści

Introduction: Populism, Democracy, and the Logic of Passion  Part 1: Ordering the Political Realm  1. Political Affects in the Neuroscientific Age  2. Populisms and Emotions  3. Populism versus Technocracy: Performance, Passions, and Aesthetics  Part 2: Passionate Logic and Discourses in Times of Austerity  4. Our Damned Weakness: Tensions between Reason and Emotion in Podemos  5. The Political Logic of Populist Hype: The Case of Right-wing Populism’s ‘Meteoric Rise’ and its Relation to the Status Quo  6. Populism and the Use of Tropes  7. Emotions and the Left in Denmark. Towards Left-Wing and Mainstream Populism  Part 3: Passions and Democratic Legitimacy  8. Filling the Vacuum? Passion, ‘the People’, and Affective Communities  9. Passion, Excess, and Fear of the Mob - Populism as Ideology  10. Populism and the Restructuring of the Public Sphere