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The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis (2018)

par Martha Nussbaum

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"From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today's atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next."--Amazon.com.… (plus d'informations)
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In the middle of The Monarchy of Fear, Martha Nussbaum brings out the final scenes of Aeschylus’s great play The Eumenides. (This is one of many examples and one of Nussbaum’s greatest contributions in breaking down the complex into the accessible – through our storytellers.)

The existence of the Furies until this point, ruled by vengeance, fear and disgust, existed on a level deeper than reason.

It is this fear that is a disfiguring emotion. And one that isn’t solved by banishment or by disengaging but when the Furies accept Athena’s conditions that justice and not vengeance should be the consequence and that these figures have a role to play.

Some tend to criticize Nussbaum’s book for a lack of political analysis but its conclusions were heading toward something more personal, the reader’s own move from envy and disgust to reason, a move from an authoritarian monarchy that is ultimately an application of force, toward a democracy reliant on the self, responsibility and engagement.

This prescription has difficulties, especially its vagueness. Nussbaum is effective at pointing to the many contradictions that emerge when being ruled by fear, disgust an envy – a definition of the West that eliminates half of the West below the Rio Grande and includes more Caucasian countries from the East, or creating villains that are simultaneously inferior and yet threatening enough to build walls and codes. The inclusion of Adam Smith’s observation that ‘it is difficult for people to sustain concern for people at a distance’ provides a great underpinning for the prescription of engagement.

That vagueness runs the risk of allowing the ‘both sides’ argument to continue. Nussbaum rightly points out that there are conservative ideas that can be engaged, but the examples used within the Academy or from German government often involve individuals who accept the basic premise that each human is endowed with basic inalienable rights. Political ideas based more strongly on hate and white supremacism – might be areas where engagement will fall apart.

This book begins a great conversation and at in a time when fear and disgust seem to be inciting crowds and bringing out some of the worst instincts – it’s a much-needed conversation.

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  DAGray08 | Jan 1, 2024 |
meh ( )
  Karenbenedetto | Jun 14, 2023 |
Nussbaum is obviously a great thinker, but this book seemed an unfocused mishmash to me. I didn’t like the way she combined analytic psychiatric ideas with philosophy. There were definitely provocative and interesting ideas in there but I didn’t think the book as a whole was well done. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
Initially holds a promise of something much more ambitious: examination of how our pure animal nature - as it has evolved over the millennia - informs what we see today in our communal and political practices (an amalgam of biology, psychology and political theory). But ultimately one is reminded of that sigh of the mother from "Boyhood": "I thought there would be more". One ends up with an impression of collection of aphorisms from a fortune cookie. ( )
  Azrail | Jul 18, 2020 |
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Martha C. Nussbaum en “La monarquía del miedo” centra su mirada en la crisis política que mantiene a Estados Unidos sumido en un elevado nivel de polarización desde las elecciones de 2016. Aunque el ambiente actual está muy marcado por las divisiones de partido y la retórica de ruptura, la autora se concentra en algo que muchos han pasado por alto: lo político siempre es emocional.

Para ella, actualmente hay mucho miedo, y es un miedo que está a menudo entremezclado con la ira, la culpa (que se atribuye a otros) y la envidia. Muchos estadounidenses, continúa Nussbaum, se sienten impotentes, sin control sobre sus propias vidas. Temen por su futuro y por el de sus seres queridos. Temen que el sueño americano –la esperanza de que sus hijos prosperen y de que les vaya incluso mejor en la vida de lo que les ha ido a sus padres- haya acabado y que todo eso se haya esfumado ya para ellos.

Esas sensaciones tienen sus fundamentos en problemas reales que son difíciles de solucionar en lo inmediato. De ahí que pueda resultar atractivamente fácil transformar esa sensación de pánico e impotencia en culpabilización y en una “alterización” de los grupos “diferentes” como son los inmigrantes, las minorías raciales y las mujeres. ”Ellos/as” nos han quitado nuestros trabajos. O si no: la élite opulenta nos ha robado nuestro país.

Cuando las personas se temen unas a otras, y temen lo que les depara un futuro desconocido, el miedo las lleva fácilmente a culpar a unos cabezas de turco, a fantasear con venganzas y a que cunda una tóxica envidia de la suerte de los afortunados (ya sean estos los vencedores de unas elecciones o aquellas personas u organizaciones que ejercen el dominio social y económico).

Este libro aspira, dice más adelante en la introducción, a conseguir que entendamos mejor algunas de las fuerzas que nos mueven y, de paso, ofrece ciertas guías generales de actuación; pero su objetivo primordial es la comprensión de la realidad. Comprender siempre tiene una vertiente práctica, claro está, pues sin una mínima comprensión de las cosas nuestros actos están condenados a carecer de objetivos concretos y a ser improvisados sobre la marcha.

Basándose en una combinación de ejemplos históricos y contemporáneos, Martha Nussbaum desenreda toda esta maraña de sentimientos y nos proporciona así una hoja de ruta para que sepamos hacia dónde dirigir nuestros pasos a partir de aquí.

Sumario

Prefacio

1. Introducción
2. El miedo, temprano y preponderante
3. La ira, hija del miedo
4. El asco motivado por el miedo: la política de la exclusión
5. El imperio de la envidia
6. Un cóctel tóxico: sexismo y misoginia
7. Esperanza, amor, visión imaginativa ( )
  MigueLoza | Mar 21, 2020 |
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"From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country. For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election. Although today's atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next."--Amazon.com.

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