Emotions as regime of justification

The case of civic anger

Bibliographic Data

ID2397908
AuthorsIlana Friedrich Silber (Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume14
Issue3
Pages301-320
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431011412347
OpenAlexW2106128353
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited52

The aim of this article is to explore the implications of a specific type of anger - termed here 'civic' anger - with regard to the place of emotions and their relation to regimes of justification in the framework of Boltanski and Thévenot's sociology of critical capacity. Drawing upon interviews with a sample of Israeli philanthropic mega-donors, it will highlight the distinctive features and context-bound operation of civic anger as a type of moral and political emotion that has not yet received its due conceptualization. In the case at hand here, civic philanthropic anger will be shown to correspond to a cultural configuration that included regimes of justification equivalent to those already identified by Boltanski and Thévenot (mainly 'civic' and 'industrial'), but also allowed a distinctive cluster of emotions to develop into an additional, 'quasi' regime of justification ('benevolence'). As such, it points to ways in which a renewed sociology of morality needs enlist the fecund idea of regimes of justification, but also draw more systematic theoretical and empirical attention to the variable and multifaceted relation between emotions and justifications in practices of moral interpretation

Anger · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Morality · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology

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