Politics and emotions
Ute Frevert explains why parliaments have always been emotional arenas, why right-wing parties are particularly successful in working with anger and how risky playing political games with emotions is
What feeling do you think characterizes the present? Ute Frevert responded to this in June 2024 when she left the “History of Emotions” research area at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin: “Fear. Many fears. Fear of social decline meets fear of loss of the future.”
What role do thinking, feeling and emotions play in a democracy? This question is the focus of the “Parliamentary Research Day”, which the Parliamentary Directorate is organizing on June 16th. The historian Ute Frevert will speak about parliament as an emotional space. A conversation about political passion, resentment and the question of what feelings a democracy urgently needs.
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