What is the nature of affections such as joy, compassion, sorrow,
and shame and what role do they play in politics? While political
experience is replete with affectivity, the affective dimension of
political experience has typically been under-conceptualised in
political theory. Joshua Hordern argues that Christian political
theology and contemporary theory of emotions have resources to
respond to this challenge and, in so doing, to offer diagnoses and
remedies for the political alienation and democratic deficit which
trouble contemporary political life. Hordern contends that
affections have a cognitive aptitude whereby they become enduring
features of shared political reasoning. In conversation with Martha
Nussbaum, Jurgen Habermas, Roger Scruton, Oliver O'Donovan and
other political thinkers both classical and contemporary, his
argument interrelates affections with memory, moral order, death,
suffering, virtue, neuroscience, familial life and national
identity. In contrast to dualisms which would separate reason from
affection and theology from politics, Hordern describes the way
that affections' role in politics is shaped by the eschatological
commitments of political thought. Through close attention to
Deuteronomy, Luke and Acts, Hordern considers the role of
affections in institutions of political representation, law and
healthcare. Over against post-national visions which underplay
locality in human identity, the account of political affectivity
which emerges suggests that civic participation, critical patriotic
loyalties, social trust and international concern will be primarily
galvanised by the renewal of local affections through effective
political representation. Moreover, churches, shaped by the
affective vision of their Scriptures, are to embody the joyful,
hopeful affective life of the Kingdom of God and thereby offer
renewal to social and political experience at local, national and
international levels.
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