Public passion rethinking the grounds for political justice /

Kingston, Rebecca.

Public passion rethinking the grounds for political justice / Rebecca Kingston. - Montréal [Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2011. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012). - 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) - McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 54 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Bringing Passion Back In -- 2. Contagion Theory Revisited -- 3. Cities and Public Passion in Plato and Aristotle -- 4. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Debate on Passions and Public Life -- 5. Montesquieu and Public Passion -- 6. Revisiting the Republic of Love -- 7. Self-interest and the Public Good in the Discourse of Monarchical Honour -- 8. Fear -- 9. Normative Political Theory in Light of Public Passion: Justice out of Passion.

A defence of the role of public emotion in politics.



9780773586062


Emotions--Political aspects.
Political psychology.
Political science--Philosophy.
Emotions (Philosophy)


Electronic Books.

JA74 / .P835 2011