Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics

by George E. Marcus

Book Overview

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that improving democratic politics requires keeping emotion out of it. Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. Instead of viewing the presence of emotion in politics as a failure of rationality and therefore as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271022124
• ISBN13: 9780271022123
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"