Passions and constraint’

The marginalization of passion in liberal political theory

Bibliographic Data

ID11340211
AuthorsCheryl Hall (University of South Florida, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume28
Issue6
Pages727-748
Publication date2002-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy & Social Criticism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0191-4537 • E-ISSN: 1461-734X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/019145370202800607
OpenAlexW2137839056
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited15

Positive arguments on behalf of passion are scarce in liberal political theory. Rather, liberal theorists tend to push passion to the margins of their theories of politics, either by ignoring it or by explicitly arguing that passion poses a danger to politics and is best kept out of the public realm. The purpose of this essay is to criticize these marginalizations and to illustrate their roots in impoverished conceptions of passion. Using a richer conception of passion as the desire for an envisioned good, I argue that it is neither possible nor desirable to eliminate passion from politics. Passion should therefore be established as a central category of analysis in political theory alongside other key concerns

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Passion · Passions · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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