The pitfalls of "Love and kindness": on the challenges to compassion/pity as a political emotion

Weber, Anne-Kathrin

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dc.contributor.author	Weber, Anne-Kathrin	de
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-25T10:03:14Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-25T10:03:14Z
dc.date.issued	2018	de
dc.identifier.issn	2183-2463	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/71708
dc.description.abstract	Martha Nussbaum’s political theory of compassion offers an extensive and compelling study of the potential of employing compassionate emotions in the political realm to further social justice and societal "love". In this article, two pitfalls of Nussbaum's affirming theory of a politics of compassion are highlighted: the problem of a dual-level hierarchisation and the "magic" of feeling compassion that potentially removes the subject of compassion from reality. I will argue that Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on pity provide substantial challenges to a democratic theory of compassion in this respect. Following these theoretical reflections, I will turn to Hillary Clinton's 2016 US-American presidential election campaign, to her video ads "Love and Kindness" in particular, in order to provide fitting illustrations from current realpolitik for these specific pitfalls of the political employment of compassionate emotions.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.other	Hillary Clinton; compassion; pity	de
dc.title	The pitfalls of "Love and kindness": on the challenges to compassion/pity as a political emotion	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1393	de
dc.source.journal	Politics and Governance
dc.source.volume	6	de
dc.publisher.country	PRT
dc.source.issue	4	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Arendt, H.	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Arendt, H.	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Nussbaum, M.	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Nussbaum, M.	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Emotionalität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	emotionality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Theorie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political theory	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
internal.identifier.thesoz	10036734
internal.identifier.thesoz	10083459
internal.identifier.thesoz	10034670
internal.identifier.thesoz	10040745
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	53-61	de
internal.identifier.journal	787
internal.identifier.document	32
dc.source.issuetopic	Interdisciplinary approaches to studying emotions within politics and international relations	de
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i4.1393	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
internal.identifier.licence	16
internal.identifier.pubstatus	1
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.dda.reference	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/oai/@@oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/1393
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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