Las emociones en la política. Una visión crítica de la teoría de Martha Nussbaum desde la visión postfundacional de Ernesto Laclau y Chantal Mouffe

Abstract

The research approaches critically to Martha Nussbaum’s theory about emotions, in its relationship with Rawlsian political liberalism. Nussbaum´s vision of emotional life in the public sphere is a moral vision, not a political one, so it produces a moralization unable to recognize the antagonistic nature of emotions in the political milieu. The framework offered by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe enables a critic from the antagonistic nature of politics, in its passionate and popular bases. The dissertation recovers the main role of emotions in political life because, instead of seeing them as blind and irrational impulses, it conceives them as a rich source of thought and reason. The sentient intelligence is a perspective that allows to rightly understand the role of emotional antagonism in a democracy.