Emotion, Politics And Society

Emotion, Politics and Society 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 and political life, for example, racism, populism, mass grief, political protest and processes of paranoia and terror.

SIMON CLARKE is Reader in Psycho-Social Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, PAUL HOGGETT is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, and SIMON THOMPSON is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director for the Centre for Critical Theory, all at the University of the West of England.