Thomas Szanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 103303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Szanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Szanto |
| SIGNATURE | SZANTO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5114-677X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
For, Against, Together: Rethinking Antagonistic Political Emotions
What are antagonistic political emotions, and what do they do? This book explores how such emotions unfold within and shape the political sphere. By driving and reinforcing identities, political emotions deepen divisions and empower feelings of hatred but also establish allegiance and belonging. Contributions from leading philosophers, political theorists, and social psychologists uncover the broad range of emotions animating contemporary politic…
Distrust, Inc: Interpersonal and Corporate Distrust, Ordinary and Deep
This paper offers a comprehensive account of distrust that can accommodate the main variants of distrust in terms of their targets: other individuals and different types of group agents and their members. In doing so, the paper not only carves out the distinct nature of distrust vis-à-vis trust but also addresses the much-neglected issue of the aim of distrust. Against reviewing standard alternatives, I propose a novel definition of interpersonal…
The Appropriateness of Political Emotions
Emotions can get things right and serve us in many productive ways. They can also get things wrong and harm our epistemic or practical endeavors. While this is equally true of political and non-political emotions, assessing the appropriateness of political emotions is a particularly contested endeavor. In our paper, we explore political emotions from a meta-normative perspective. Building on existing discussions on the fittingness and appropriate…
Epistemically exploitative bullshit: A Sartrean account
This paper presents a novel conceptualization of a type of untruthful speech that is of eminent political relevance but has hitherto been unrecognized: epistemically exploitative bullshit (EEB). Speakers engaging in EEB are bullshitting: they deceive their addressee regarding their unconcern for the very difference between truth and falsity. At the same time, they exploit their discursive victims: they oblige their counterparts to perform unackno…
Introduction: Husserl and community
Husserl on the state: A critical reappraisal
Sacralizing Hostility
Fanaticism is usually conceived as an epistemic attitude of individuals, founded on a set of rationally not justified beliefs, and amounting to an unwavering commitment to threatened, sacred values. Moreover, it has been routinely pointed out that there is an intimate connection between fanatics’ irrational commitments and passions as well as fanatics’ social identification with a group that purportedly shares one’s values. However, in all these …
Political emotions and political atmospheres
This chapter examines the notion of “political atmosphere”; asking what is an atmosphere and, in particular, what makes an atmosphere a political atmosphere. The chapter considers two characteristics of political atmosphere: (i) that atmospheres can be created; and (ii) that atmospheres influence those who experience them. These characteristics are of acute concern in the context of political atmospheres, as they highlight that political atmosphe…
Can it be or feel right to hate? On the appropriateness and fittingness of hatred
What exactly is wrong with hating others? However deep-seated the intuition, when it comes to spelling out the reasons for why hatred is inappropriate, the literature is rather meager and confusing. In this paper, I attempt to be more precise by distinguishing two senses in which hatred is inappropriate, a moral and a non-moral one. First, I critically discuss the central current proposals defending the possibility of morally appropriate hatred i…
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Emotional sharing and the extended mind
Feelings of Being Together and Caring with One Another: A Contribution to the Debate on Collective Affective Intentionality
How is it possible for two or more individuals to share emotions?More specifically, how is it possible to share emotional episodes such that the participating individuals' "feeling together" is not merely a matter of feeling the same emotion towards the same object or event alongside each other?What account of emotion and collectivity do we have to presuppose to allow for such a strong, non-metaphorical sense of affective sharing?And is there som…
Extended emotions
Until recently, philosophers and psychologists conceived of emotions as brain- and body-bound affairs. But researchers have started to challenge this internalist and individualist orthodoxy. A rapidly growing body of work suggests that some emotions incorporate external resources and thus extend beyond the neurophysiological confines of organisms; some even argue that emotions can be socially extended and shared by multiple agents. Call this the …
Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’
status: Published
Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering The 'We'
Introduction: Empathy and Collective Intentionality—The Social Philosophy of Edith Stein
Collective Emotions, Normativity, and Empathy: A Steinian Account
Extended emotions
Until recently, philosophers and psychologists conceived of emotions as brain- and body-bound affairs. But researchers have started to challenge this internalist and individualist orthodoxy. A rapidly growing body of work suggests that some emotions incorporate external resources and thus extend beyond the neurophysiological confines of organisms; some even argue that emotions can be socially extended and shared by multiple agents. Call this the …
Emotional sharing and the extended mind
Collective Emotions, Normativity, and Empathy: A Steinian Account
Introduction: Empathy and Collective Intentionality—The Social Philosophy of Edith Stein
Can it be or feel right to hate? On the appropriateness and fittingness of hatred
What exactly is wrong with hating others? However deep-seated the intuition, when it comes to spelling out the reasons for why hatred is inappropriate, the literature is rather meager and confusing. In this paper, I attempt to be more precise by distinguishing two senses in which hatred is inappropriate, a moral and a non-moral one. First, I critically discuss the central current proposals defending the possibility of morally appropriate hatred i…
Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’
status: Published
Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering The 'We'
Introduction: Empathy and Collective Intentionality—The Social Philosophy of Edith Stein
Collective Emotions, Normativity, and Empathy: A Steinian Account
Extended emotions
Until recently, philosophers and psychologists conceived of emotions as brain- and body-bound affairs. But researchers have started to challenge this internalist and individualist orthodoxy. A rapidly growing body of work suggests that some emotions incorporate external resources and thus extend beyond the neurophysiological confines of organisms; some even argue that emotions can be socially extended and shared by multiple agents. Call this the …
Feelings of Being Together and Caring with One Another: A Contribution to the Debate on Collective Affective Intentionality
How is it possible for two or more individuals to share emotions?More specifically, how is it possible to share emotional episodes such that the participating individuals' "feeling together" is not merely a matter of feeling the same emotion towards the same object or event alongside each other?What account of emotion and collectivity do we have to presuppose to allow for such a strong, non-metaphorical sense of affective sharing?And is there som…
Emotional sharing and the extended mind
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion
Political emotions and political atmospheres
This chapter examines the notion of “political atmosphere”; asking what is an atmosphere and, in particular, what makes an atmosphere a political atmosphere. The chapter considers two characteristics of political atmosphere: (i) that atmospheres can be created; and (ii) that atmospheres influence those who experience them. These characteristics are of acute concern in the context of political atmospheres, as they highlight that political atmosphe…
Can it be or feel right to hate? On the appropriateness and fittingness of hatred
What exactly is wrong with hating others? However deep-seated the intuition, when it comes to spelling out the reasons for why hatred is inappropriate, the literature is rather meager and confusing. In this paper, I attempt to be more precise by distinguishing two senses in which hatred is inappropriate, a moral and a non-moral one. First, I critically discuss the central current proposals defending the possibility of morally appropriate hatred i…
Sacralizing Hostility
Fanaticism is usually conceived as an epistemic attitude of individuals, founded on a set of rationally not justified beliefs, and amounting to an unwavering commitment to threatened, sacred values. Moreover, it has been routinely pointed out that there is an intimate connection between fanatics’ irrational commitments and passions as well as fanatics’ social identification with a group that purportedly shares one’s values. However, in all these …
Epistemically exploitative bullshit: A Sartrean account
This paper presents a novel conceptualization of a type of untruthful speech that is of eminent political relevance but has hitherto been unrecognized: epistemically exploitative bullshit (EEB). Speakers engaging in EEB are bullshitting: they deceive their addressee regarding their unconcern for the very difference between truth and falsity. At the same time, they exploit their discursive victims: they oblige their counterparts to perform unackno…
Introduction: Husserl and community
Husserl on the state: A critical reappraisal
The Appropriateness of Political Emotions
Emotions can get things right and serve us in many productive ways. They can also get things wrong and harm our epistemic or practical endeavors. While this is equally true of political and non-political emotions, assessing the appropriateness of political emotions is a particularly contested endeavor. In our paper, we explore political emotions from a meta-normative perspective. Building on existing discussions on the fittingness and appropriate…
For, Against, Together: Rethinking Antagonistic Political Emotions
What are antagonistic political emotions, and what do they do? This book explores how such emotions unfold within and shape the political sphere. By driving and reinforcing identities, political emotions deepen divisions and empower feelings of hatred but also establish allegiance and belonging. Contributions from leading philosophers, political theorists, and social psychologists uncover the broad range of emotions animating contemporary politic…
Distrust, Inc: Interpersonal and Corporate Distrust, Ordinary and Deep
This paper offers a comprehensive account of distrust that can accommodate the main variants of distrust in terms of their targets: other individuals and different types of group agents and their members. In doing so, the paper not only carves out the distinct nature of distrust vis-à-vis trust but also addresses the much-neglected issue of the aim of distrust. Against reviewing standard alternatives, I propose a novel definition of interpersonal…
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works)