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Politics and Emotions - The Obama Phenomenon
of: Marcos Engelken-Jorge, Pedro Ibarra Güell, Carmelo Moreno Del Rio
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV), 2011
ISBN: 9783531932019 , 191 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Contents
5
Politics & Emotions: An Overview
7
Have emotions been marginalized in Western Tradition?
8
Controversies Revolving around the Concept of Emotion
11
Areas of Research
16
Emotions and Research Methods
21
The Book
22
References
23
Emotions & Contemporary Political Theory
26
The Political Mind and Its Other
27
The Semiotic Structure of the Reason / Passion Dichotomy
30
Hyperrationality and the Theoretical Exclusion of Emotion in Mainstream Political Theory
35
The Contemporary Critique of the Reason/Passion Dichotomy: From Neuroscience to Philosophy and the Social Sciences
41
The Return of Passions to Political Theory
53
References
64
Methodological Issues
69
The Influence of Affective States on the Depth of Information Processing
70
Emotion and Affect
71
Information Processing
72
The Direct Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Behaviors and Judgments
73
Understanding the Direct Influence of Affect
74
The Indirect Influence of Positive and Negative Affective States on Information Processing
75
The Bipolar Conceptualization of Affect
76
Understanding the Differential Influence of Positive and Negative Affect
77
The Discrete Emotion Conceptualization of Affective States
79
Understanding the Differential Influence of Discrete Emotions of the Same Valence
82
Issues of Measurement
83
Future Directions and Conclusions
85
References
87
Barack Obama and the Political Science of Hope
92
Barack Obama and the ‘Politics of Hope’
92
What is Hope? Defining the Concept
93
A Little of What We Know So Far about Positive Political Emotions
96
A Political Science of Hope
97
Hope and Campaign Rhetoric
98
Hope and Voters
99
Hope and Staffers, Volunteers, and Activists
99
A Note on Measuring and Testing ‘Political Hope’
100
An Agenda for Political Hope
101
References
102
Perspectives on Politics & Emotions The Obama Phenomenon
104
Suspending Disbelief
105
Emotions in Political Communication
106
The Medium is the Message: Emotional Architectures of Meaning4
108
The Intimate Crowd
112
Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief
115
References
121
Persuading the Intractable
125
Obama and ‘Change’
125
Political Communicators
126
Emotions, Identity and Politics
127
Discourse and Emotional Engagement
130
Emotion and Political Concepts
131
The Political Masses and Empathy
132
Emotion and Transference
133
‘Real’ and ‘False’ Rhetoric and Actions
134
What Next for the ‘Now’ Agenda?
135
References
136
"I’m Still Standing fo Hope and Glory!"
137
Emotional Politics
137
The Politics of Resentment
141
The Politics of Cosmopolitanism
143
Conclusion
147
References
148
Desiring Politics
150
Hope in 1992
152
Enthusiasm, Apathy, and the Ineloquence of the Political
156
Hope, Now
160
Hope and (Some) Leftists
164
Hope and Its Doings
167
Is Hope Fading Fast?
172
Capacities, Potentialities, Openings
175
References
178
About the Authors
184
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