For, Against, Together

Lucy Osler is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK, specialising in the philosophy of emotions and technology in dialogue with the social sciences. She is the vice president of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions and associate editor for Passion and Philosophy of AI. Thomas Szanto is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Flensburg, Germany, working at the intersection of social and political philosophy, phenomenology and the affective sciences. He serves on the editorial board of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and is the incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review.

• Rethinking affective antagonism: an introduction Lucy Osler and Thomas Szanto; Part I. Emotional Politics and Political Emotions: 1. The emotionalisation of society and the politicisation of emotions Agneta H. Fischer and Jan-Willem Duyvendak; 2. What makes an emotion political? Affective polarisation as a test case for political emotions Berit Brogaard; Part II. Hostile Antagonistic Political Emotions: 3. Yard sign politics: spite, polarisation, and self-expression Krista K. Thomason; 4. Ressentiment and identity Paul Katsafanas; 5. Collective victimhood: the shallow social bond of ressentiment Mikko Salmela and Tereza Capelos; 6. Do we share a moral order? The inevitability of blame and its hostile emotions James M. Jasper; Part III. Complicating Narratives Of Antagonism: 7. Fighting fire with fire: mobilising anger for climate justice Laura Silva and Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh; 8. The political significance of expressing group-based shame Alba Montes Sánchez and Alessandro Salice; 9. Anger and altruism, war and peace: antagonistic political emotions in human evolution John Protevi; 10. The fear of fear in political theory Dan Degerman; Part IV. Unmasking Antagonism: 11. Hostile loneliness Sanna Karoliina Tirkkonen; 12. Affective doubt and antagonistic politics Tris Hedges and Lucy Osler; 13. Treating people as mere heroes: public admiration as a moral wrong André Grahle and Alfred Archer; 14. Collective hubris, triumphalism and pyrrhic victories: exploring the darker side of collective pride in political struggles and conflicts Gavin Brent Sullivan, Jonas Valentin Rudolph and Philipp Wunderlich; 15. Unfelt political emotions: the case of ontological terror Gerhard Thonhauser; Part V. Spaces Of Antagonism: 16. #Whileweweregone: political antagonism, control, and empowerment online Moujan Mirdamadi and Joel Krueger; 17. Religious freedom and meaning vertigo: a social imaginaries analysis of 'The Persecuted Faithful' in The Australian's op-eds Louise Richardson-Self; 18. Affective bubbles and political emotions Tom Roberts.

'This is, somewhat sadly, a most welcome and timely volume. The editors have done a great job of securing a rich diversity of primarily philosophical, but also psychological, and sociological perspective on antagonistic political emotions. The overall approach is exceptionally critical and conceptually alert and doesn't rest with the 'usual suspects' (hate, resentment, anger).' Thomas Brudholm, Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and author of Resentment's Virtue