Nationalism and Populism

Thomas Sturm (MAE) is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a Member of the Academia Europaea. He works on Kant, theories of rationality and their application to politics and education, science studies, and on science policy in the European Union. Selected publications include Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (2009) and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind (with P. Erickson et al. 2013) and articles in Kant‑Studien, Synthese, Annals of Science, and European Review.Sabine A. Döring is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen, Germany and former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. Her research interests include theories of practical reason and ethics, with an emphasis on emotions, and political philosophy. She is the author of Philosophie der Gefühle (2009) and Wissenschaftsfreiheit in der liberalen Demokratie (2026). In 2022, she was awarded an Opus Magnum grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for her forthcoming book Freely Acting in Solidarity. A Liberal Theory of the Common Good which she is currently pursuing as a Research Professor at the Walter Eucken Institut and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

• Introduction Thomas Sturm & Sabine Döring I. Nationalism: Populist or Liberal? 1. National-Populism, Ressentimentful Politics, and Autocratization: How Grievance Becomes a Governing Logic Tereza Capelos, Mikko Salmela and Nicolas Demertzis 2. The Resurgence of Nationalism David Miller II. Populism, Nationalism, and Reasoning in Democracy 3. Populism, Knowledge, and Democracy Åsa Wikforss 4. The Catalan Independence Conflict: Political Contexts, Polarized Debates, and Public Reasoning Thomas Sturm III. Emotional Processes and Nationalist/Populist Movements 5. Affective Phenomena in the Political Arena: Appearances of "New Nationalism" in France, Germany, and the USA Achim Stephan and Lucy Osler 6. Exploiting Fear, Selling Greatness: How Populists Engineer Conceptual Schemes Sabine Döring 7. The Aptness of Anger's Expression? The Outbreak of Angry Citizens Teresa Marques IV. Transnational Projects: Questioning Nationalism and Populism 8. Is Direct Democracy Populist and Anti-European? Francis Cheneval 9. European Liberal Democracies Facing Populism: Reasons for Cautious Optimism Stéphane Dion 10. International Responsibility and the Refugee Crisis: Nationalism, Patriotism, and the Ethics of Partiality Robert Audi

"The present volume provides an insightful interdisciplinary approach to nationalism as a challenge to the European integration project and similar postnational democratic experiments. It includes novel contributions from authoritative leading scholars in the subject. The book takes into account the cognitive and emotional processes involved in nationalism, thereby stablishing interesting bridges among humanities, cognitive and social sciences."Marta Postigo, University of Málaga, Spain"This book provides a fundamental insight into the emotional and psychological processes that underlie the rise of populism and nationalism in Europe."Volker Kaul, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic