Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics

by Roxanne L. Euben

How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics

Humiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and is expressed by those with too much power as well as by those with too little. In Driven to Their Knees, Roxanne Euben takes readers from conflicts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691183686
• ISBN13: 9780691183688
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages