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Bringing the Passions Back In
The Emotions in Political Philosophy
Edited by Rebecca Kingston and Leonard Ferry
Bringing the Passions Back In draws upon the history of
political theory to shed light on the place of emotions in
politics and illustrates how sophisticated thinking about
the relationship between reason and passion can inform
contemporary democratic political theory.
These re-discovered resources are used to revise the
rationalist and idealist model for political life in Anglo-
American versions of liberalism. The rationalist ideal
has been met with cynicism
in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion
and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social
and political implications of the emotions in the history
of ideas, contributors examine new paradigms for
liberalism and offer new appreciations of the potential for
passion in political philosophy and practice.
This important overview of the place of emotions within
the history of political thought sheds new light on
problems facing contemporary liberal and democratic
political theory. Bringing the Passions Back In will
interest scholars and students in political theory,
the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, cultural
studies, and philosophy.
Contents
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Contributors include Arash Abizadeh, Leah Bradshaw, Sharon
Krause, Ingrid Makus, Amelie O. Rorty, Marlene K. Sokolon,
Robert C. Solomon, and Christina Tarnopolsky.
Rebecca Kingston is an assistant professor
of political science at the University of
Toronto. She is author of Montesquieu and the
‘Parlement’ of Bordeaux, which was awarded
the Prix Montesquieu. Leonard Ferry is a
doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the
University of Toronto.
December 2007
336 pages, est., 6 x 9”
0-7748-1409-8 / 978-0-7748-1409-6
cloth $85.00
0-7748-1410-1 /978-0-7748-1410-2
paper $34.95 (publishing July 2008)
www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477 7