| Description |
viii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Emotion Conventionally Understood -- 3. The Requirements of Citizenship -- 4. Becoming Reacquainted with Emotion -- 5. The Uses of Habit and Enthusiasm -- 6. The Uses of Anxiety -- 7. The Dangers of Loathing -- 8. The Sentimental Citizen |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index |
| Subject |
Political participation -- United States.
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Democracy -- United States.
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Emotions.
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Reason.
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| LC no. |
2001055296 |
| ISBN |
0271022116 cloth alkaline paper |
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0271022124 paperback alkaline paper |
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