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