The Power of Affects in Democratic Politics
Manuel Puig’s ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and the affective turn in democratic theory
The so-called “affective turn” in political theory has recently propelled several scholars to cast aspersions on the deliberative model of democracy. [i] By affirming that democracy should be conceived solely as an exchange of arguments between “reasonable” persons guided by the ideal of “impartiality,” deliberative theorists such as Habermas and Rawls, it ...
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