The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics - Brossura

Marcus, George E.

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ISBN 10: 0271022124 ISBN 13: 9780271022123

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that improving democratic politics requires keeping emotion out of it. Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. Instead of viewing the presence of emotion in politics as a failure of rationality and therefore as a failure of citizenship, Marcus argues, democratic theorists need to understand that emotions are in fact a prerequisite for the exercise of reason and thus essential for rational democratic deliberation and political judgment. Attempts to purge emotion from public life not only are destined to fail, but ultimately would rob democracies of a key source of revitalization and change.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

George E. Marcus is Professor of Political Science at Williams College.

George E. Marcus is Professor of Political Science at Williams College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0271022124
• ISBN 13: 9780271022123
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 171