La démocratie échauffée - (Cycle hybride 2023-2024) - (December 12, 2023 - June 11, 2024) - (German Historical Institute - Heinrich Heine House - Paris) registration required
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Do emotions undermine democracy, as is often thought? Or do intense emotions, on the contrary, have an important political function, particularly in democratic regimes? It seems that emotions can build and sustain democracies, but also threaten or even destroy them. This series of round-table discussions addresses the ambivalent role of emotional manifestations in contemporary democracies. Through four historical case studies, it extends a current of research that is currently making waves in Germany and France: the history of emotions.
