Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology. By Joshua Hordern
This book, very much in the school of Oliver O’Donovan and drawing on his work as a principal source, seeks to address the democratic deficit of Western societies by regaining the political affections, particularly loyalty and trust. The first two chapters examine at length both the relation of poli...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 868-870 |
| Review of: | Political affections (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013) (Gorringe, Timothy)
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| Summary: | This book, very much in the school of Oliver O’Donovan and drawing on his work as a principal source, seeks to address the democratic deficit of Western societies by regaining the political affections, particularly loyalty and trust. The first two chapters examine at length both the relation of politics and emotions and the language of affections, engaging in close and helpful debate with Habermas and Martha Nussbaum. Affections, Hordern argues, are a deeply human way of being committed to making moral discoveries and thereby being attentive to reality. Of course not everyone’s affections will be equally insightful but what will be expected will be ‘a boisterous but reasonable conflict of affective understanding’ (p. 80). There is much to be learned from this part of the discussion. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt088 |