This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social and political life.

JACK BARBALET Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester, UK C. FRED ALFORD Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA NICHOLAS DEMERTZIS Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, Athens University, Greece JAMES M. JASPER An Independent Scholar living in New York City, USA