Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions - Couverture souple

Degerman, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399504401 ISBN 13 : 9781399504409

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dan Degerman is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. His research explores issues at the intersection of the philosophy and history of emotions, mental disorder, and political engagement, and he has a special interest in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399504401
• ISBN 13: 9781399504409
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible