Politics and Emotions [electronic resource] : The Obama Phenomenon /
Engelken-Jorge, Marcos.editor.
Güell, Pedro Ibarra.editor.
Rio, Carmelo Moreno del.editor.
Mainstream liberal narratives have often depicted politics as a matter of power and competing interests, disregarding emotions or conceiving them as threats to a rational and well-ordered society. In the last decades, however, this viewpoint has been increasingly challenged by a number of scholars researching on the complex and multidimensional role of emotions in politics. This edited collection aims at providing a concise but comprehensive introduction to this area of research. The essays contained in this volume focus on a single case, the Obama phenomenon, illustrating empirically how the variable ‘emotions’ can enrich political analysis. Taken together, the essays reflect the plurality of approaches available to the study of politics and emotions and thus contribute to the cutting-edge debates on this fascinating topic.
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents; Politics & Emotions: An Overview; Have emotions been marginalized in Western Tradition?; Controversies Revolving around the Concept of Emotion; Areas of Research; Emotions and Research Methods; The Book; References; Emotions & Contemporary Political Theory; The Political Mind and Its Other; The Semiotic Structure of the Reason / Passion Dichotomy; Hyperrationality and the Theoretical Exclusion of Emotion in Mainstream Political Theory; The Contemporary Critique of the Reason/Passion Dichotomy: From Neuroscience to Philosophy and the Social Sciences
The Return of Passions to Political TheoryReferences; Methodological Issues; The Influence of Affective States on the Depth of Information Processing; Emotion and Affect; Information Processing; The Direct Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Behaviors and Judgments; Understanding the Direct Influence of Affect; The Indirect Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Information Processing; The Bipolar Conceptualization of Affect; Understanding the Differential Influence of Positive and Negative Affect; The Discrete Emotion Conceptualization of Affective States
Understanding the Differential Influence of Discrete Emotions of the Same ValenceIssues of Measurement; Future Directions and Conclusions; References; Barack Obama and the Political Science of Hope; Barack Obama and the 'Politics of Hope'; What is Hope? Defining the Concept; A Little of What We Know So Far about Positive Political Emotions; A Political Science of Hope; Hope and Campaign Rhetoric; Hope and Voters; Hope and Staffers, Volunteers, and Activists; A Note on Measuring and Testing 'Political Hope'; An Agenda for Political Hope; References
Perspectives on Politics & Emotions The Obama PhenomenonSuspending Disbelief; Emotions in Political Communication; The Medium is the Message: Emotional Architectures of Meaning4; The Intimate Crowd; Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief; References; Persuading the Intractable; Obama and 'Change'; Political Communicators; Emotions, Identity and Politics; Discourse and Emotional Engagement; Emotion and Political Concepts; The Political Masses and Empathy; Emotion and Transference; 'Real' and 'False' Rhetoric and Actions; What Next for the 'Now' Agenda?; References
""I'm Still Standing fo Hope and Glory!""Emotional Politics; The Politics of Resentment; The Politics of Cosmopolitanism; Conclusion; References; Desiring Politics; Hope in 1992; Enthusiasm, Apathy, and the Ineloquence of the Political; Hope, Now; Hope and (Some) Leftists; Hope and Its Doings; Is Hope Fading Fast?; Capacities, Potentialities, Openings; References; About the Authors
Includes bibliographical references.
Mainstream liberal narratives have often depicted politics as a matter of power and competing interests, disregarding emotions or conceiving them as threats to a rational and well-ordered society. In the last decades, however, this viewpoint has been increasingly challenged by a number of scholars researching on the complex and multidimensional role of emotions in politics. This edited collection aims at providing a concise but comprehensive introduction to this area of research. The essays contained in this volume focus on a single case, the Obama phenomenon, illustrating empirically how the variable ‘emotions’ can enrich political analysis. Taken together, the essays reflect the plurality of approaches available to the study of politics and emotions and thus contribute to the cutting-edge debates on this fascinating topic.
Obama, Barack.
Political communication.
Political science.
Political Communication.
Political Science.