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dc.contributor.advisor | Beier, J. Marshall | - |
dc.contributor.author | Di Gregorio, Michael | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-07T12:38:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-07T12:38:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-13 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22868 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis investigates the historical relationship between understandings of human emotion, and how they manifest in our understanding of the political. Specifically, this thesis returns to the presentation of individual political psychology in ancient Greece (Thucydides, Aristotle), the 17th and 18th centuries (Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant), and the 20th century (Schmitt, Fukuyama, Lebow) to illuminate how these understandings have shaped our idea of Sovereignty as an idea, institution, and practice. By turning to the rich history in political thought on emotion and affect, this thesis demonstrates a consistent and prolonged constitutive relationship between presentations of individual political psychology and international political order. This thesis also rehabilitates the full scope of affective insights into political phenomena— by turning to literature on rhetoric and aesthetics—in order to open up new space to critique common understandings of Sovereignty. Moreover, given that the institution and concept of Sovereignty is central to research in the disciplines of International Relations and Political Theory, this thesis also argues for a much-needed closure of intellectual space between these two branches of Political Science. In short, this thesis demonstrates the centrality of the politics of affect and the divergent and disparate pictures of individual political psychology that are taken for granted in defenses and critiques of the concept of Sovereignty. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | affect, emotion, thumos, international relations theory, political theory, sovereignty | en_US |
dc.title | The Affect of the Political | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | On the Politics and Psychology of Internalizing the International | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Political Science - International Relations | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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