Introduction: Populism, Democracy, and the Logic of Passion
Part1: Ordering the Political Realm
1. Political Affects in the Neuroscientific Age
2. Populisms and Emotions
3. Populism versus Technocracy: Performance, Passions, and Aesthetics
Part2: Passionate Logic and Discourses in Times of Austerity
4. Our Damned Weakness: Tensions between Reason and Emotion in Podemos
5. The Political Logic of Populist Hype: The Case of Right-wing Populism’s ‘Meteoric Rise’ and its Relation to the Status Quo
6. Populism and the Use of Tropes
7. Emotions and the Left in Denmark. Towards Left-Wing and Mainstream Populism
Part3: Passions and Democratic Legitimacy
8. Filling the Vacuum? Passion, ‘the People’, and Affective Communities
9. Passion, Excess, and Fear of the Mob - Populism as Ideology
10. Populism and the Restructuring of the Public Sphere