Passions and Politics
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781509532735
Subjects: Political science, philosophy; Emotions; Liberalism
Description: "The dominant model of democratic politics treats passions as dangerous, the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue. In this short, timely book, Paul Ginsborg and Sergio Labate put forward a very different view, showing that today, whether in the success of neoliberalism or the rise of populism, both passions and reason play a crucial role"--