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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164920203321

Autore

Kassab Hanna Samir

Titolo

The Power of Emotion in Politics, Philosophy, and Ideology [[electronic resource] /] / by Hanna Samir Kassab

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-59352-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

POL005000POL011000POL016000POL042030

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Political science

International relations

International organization

Political theory

Emotions

Political Science

International Relations

International Organization

Political Theory

Emotion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THEORY -- 1. Emotions and the Individual -- 2. Emotions and the Formation of Ideas -- 3. The Structure of Politics -- 4. Political Philosophy and Political Ideology -- PART II: CASES -- 5. Democracy -- 6. Communism -- 7. Nazism -- 8. Zionism, Arab Nationalism, Islamism and US Neoconservativism -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book defines political ideology as a structural force that combines ideas, emotion, and people for the purpose of transforming political discourse. It advances a theoretical proposition concerning the creation of alternative modes of governance and proposes a general theory explains the reasons for the creation of political ideologies as an escape from perceived injustice. The theory also explains democracy's success and the failure of Communism and the Fascism. The purpose



of any political ideology, whether Democracy, Fascism (and its varieties), or Communism, is to escape human suffering by combining ideas, emotion, and people in the production of fundamental societal change. Ideologies must possess these three variables to attain the necessary power to succeed as a political force. Power gives the ideology the structural ability to transform society, trapping the once free individual into the ideology.