Political Emotions

by Marlene K. Sokolon

A rioting crowd in a burning city, a lynch mob circling a battered body, a campaigning senator exaggerating the threat of an enemy's bombs--evidence of the power of anger, hate, and fear has lead many political philosophers to call for rationality as the exclusive basis for a stable, just society. Yet Aristotle himself granted emotions a role as significant as that of reason in political life. In this timely book, Marlene K. Sokolon revisits Aristotle's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087580361X
• ISBN13: 9780875803616
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher