Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Dan Degerman, University of Bristol) Degerman, Dan (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Philosophy

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This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and grief as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects society. Drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book develops an original understanding of political emotions as fragile and vulnerable to attacks disputing their relevance to public life. It presents and analyses four case studies of emotional politics in the UK, ranging from assertions that UKIP supporters were emotionally primitive to diagnoses of anxiety disorder in the Brexit referendum's aftermath. It demonstrates how ideas of emotion and mental disorder might be used to both empower and disempower people politically.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-05
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTaking on the Political
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399504393

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The passions unleashed by populism, Covid-related concerns and increased democratic disaffection all focus attention on the politics of emotions and the emotional drivers of political life. But very few scholars have been able to reveal why emotions matter with the skill and sophistication that Dan Degerman brings to the topic. Like all brilliant books Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions raises as many questions as it answers as it skillfully dissects a range of literatures, topics and themes. A quite remarkable book that deserves to be read within and beyond academe.