Democracy in danger: how emotions affect grievances and politics

Democracy in danger: how emotions affect grievances and politics

One of the chief assumptions of liberalism, at least a certain strand of liberalism and democratic theory, is the hope that the public sphere would be governed by reason: specifically, deliberative reason.
I’m a sociologist and a Director of Studies at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, CSE-EHESS in Paris. My research focuses on the sociology of capitalism, the sociology of emotions, the sociology of gender and the sociology of culture. M work explores several significant and thought-provoking themes, such as the influence of capitalism on emotions, the commodification of romance and the meaning of freedom, choice, and individualism in the modern world.
About Eva Illouz