face book: "Emotion, Politics and Society", Simon Clarke, Paul Hoggett, Simon Thompson, 2006..., book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and the emotions. This is a very timely project given the centrality of mass emotions such as fear and humiliation on the world stage today... Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social (for example, racism, populism, mass grief, political protest and processes of paranoia and terror) and political life...
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