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Political Emotions

Towards a Decent Public Sphere

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Editors:
  1. Thom Brooks

    1. Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham, UK

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  • Features many leading thinkers
  • Takes an interdisciplinary approach
  • Addresses contemporary concerns

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy (PASEPP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Thom Brooks
    Pages 1-9

  3. Political Objectivity

    • Martha C. Nussbaum
    Pages 11-40

  4. Envy as a Civic Emotion

    • Sara Protasi
    Pages 41-57

  5. How the Body Is Involved in Moral and Cognitive Emotions

    • Rick Anthony Furtak
    Pages 59-79

  6. Conscience and Context

    • Clare Chambers
    Pages 81-97

  7. The Politics of Compassion

    • Amia Srinivasan
    Pages 99-114

  8. Cultivating Citizenship: On the Importance of Stakeholding

    • Thom Brooks
    Pages 115-132

  9. The Liberalism of Love

    • John Tasioulas
    Pages 133-153

  10. Perfectionist Liberalism or Political Liberalism? How Might Amartya Sen Respond to Martha Nussbaum’s Question?

    • Mozaffar Qizilbash
    Pages 155-174

  11. The “Transition” to Restorative Justice

    • Thom Brooks
    Pages 175-192

  12. Reply

    • Martha C. Nussbaum
    Pages 193-237

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 239-243
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About this book

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere? Our societies are characterized by difference and contestation. Cultivating political emotions can appear counterproductive to stability and peace. But there is an increasing recognition that emotions can be harnessed to empower community cohesion and social justice – and new ideas about how our political emotions can foster a decent public sphere and overcome intolerance are urgently needed. In Political Emotions: Towards a Decent Public Sphere, leading theorists consider the limits and prospects of cultivating our emotions that support social justice. All examine this topic from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives breaking new ground and yielding new understandings. Issues explored include adaptive preferences, capabilities, civil religion, compassion, conscience, dignity, feminism, imagination, multicultural citizenship, perfectionism, political liberalism, public sentiments, sympathy and much more in a wide-ranging exploration of key themes in contemporary political philosophy – and Martha C. Nussbaum’s significant contributions to it in particular - that should be of interest to anyone working in these broad areas.


Reviews

“When hate crime and furious ideological conflicts feature so much in the media, how timely and reassuring it is for philosophers to engage with the potentially positive aspects of emotion in political life! We tend to think of politics as being ideally a matter of impartial rationality, which emotion serves to vitiate, but these richly diverse essays ask in what ways emotions can in fact help, rather than hinder, our communality and cohesiveness. Envy, tolerance, compassion, love, anger, disgust – the ambivalences of these and other emotions, their possible contribution to the pursuit of social justice, the differences between their personal and their shared realizations, are incisively examined. The authors respond to some of the themes in Martha Nussbaum’s work on emotions and the final essay contains her own responses to each of them, adding further depth to a marvellous melange.” — Jane O’Grady, Co-founder and teacher at the London School of Philosophy, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Thom Brooks

About the editor

Thom Brooks is Dean of Durham Law School and Professor of Law and Government. His books include The Global Justice Reader (2008), Punishment (2021, 2d), Hegel’s Political Philosophy (2013), Becoming British (2016), The Trust Factor (2021) and Rawls’s Political Liberalism (co-edited with Martha Nussbaum, 2015). Brooks advises the UK’s Labour Party and writes columns for the Daily Telegraph and Independent.   


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political Emotions

  • Book Subtitle: Towards a Decent Public Sphere

  • Editors: Thom Brooks

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91092-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91091-4Published: 20 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91094-5Published: 20 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91092-1Published: 19 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2738

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2746

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy

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