Retrieving political emotion

Retrieving political emotion

by Barbara Koziak

2000
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"Retrieving Political Emotion engages the reader in an excursion through our ancient Greek heritage to recover a concept of emotion useful for enriching political philosophy today. Focusing on thumos (typically translated as "spiritedness," "heart," or "anger"), Barbara Koziak reveals misinterpretations of the concept that have hampered recognition of its possibilities for normative theory. Then, drawing especially on Aristotle's construal of it as a general capacity for emotion and relating this to contemporary multidisciplinary work on emotion, she reformulates thumos to provide a more adequate theory of political emotion, as an antidote to the modern fixation on rational self-interest as the key to explaining political behavior."--BOOK JACKET.

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    Koziak argues that modern political philosophy is overly fixated on rational self-interest. What specific evidence or historical analysis does she offer that most effectively convinced you of this imbalance, and what are the practical consequences she highlights?

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    The book delves into ancient Greek understandings of emotion, especially thumos. What aspects of this ancient perspective, particularly Aristotle's construal, did you find most illuminating or counter-intuitive when compared to contemporary Western views of emotion in politics?

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    Koziak reformulates thumos from simple "anger" or "spiritedness" into a "general capacity for emotion." How does this broader definition change our understanding of political motivations, and what new types of political behavior does it help to explain?

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