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Book SynopsisDrawing on resources ranging from Hume's theory of moral sentiment to recent findings in neuroscience, this title provides an account of how passions can generate an impartial standpoint that yields binding and compelling conclusions in politics.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Spitz Prize for the Best Book on Liberal or Democratic Theory, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought Winner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology "Krause's Civil Passions is an ambitious work of political theory that attempts to bridge the age-old divide between reason and emotion in theories of moral and political judgment... This is a well-written, cogently argued, provocative, and important contribution to recent scholarship on democratic deliberation, theories of justice, and the proper role of affect within the political realm."--Choice "Sharon Krause offers a significant reinterpretation of the relations among reason, emotion, morality, and politics. Civil Passions will become a major reference point for philosophers, political theorists, and legal theorists working on a broad range of issues, including moral psychology, metaethics, deliberative democracy, and legitimacy."--Matthew D. Mendham, Journal of the Review of Politics "As scholars of deliberation move this research agenda forward, they can be grateful to Krause ... for bringing to the fore just how multidimensional deliberative democracy really is."--Jurg Steiner, Perspectives on Politics "Civil Passions is a well-written contribution to this debate and will be of interest both to political theorists and to moral philosophers."--Liz Sutherland, Political Studies Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: Citizenship, Judgment, and the Politics of Passion 1 CHAPTER ONE: Justice and Passion in Rawls and Habermas 27 CHAPTER TWO: Recent Alternatives to Rationalism 48 CHAPTER THREE: Moral Sentiment and the Politics of Judgment in Hume 77 CHAPTER FOUR: Affective Judgment in Democratic Politics 111 CHAPTER FIVE: Public Deliberation and the Feeling of Impartiality 142 CHAPTER SIX: The Affective Authority of Law 175 CONCLUSION: Toward a New Politics of Passion: Civil Passions and the Promise of Justice 200 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 257
