Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery (Paperback)

Introduction Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai, and Manussos Marangudakis Part I: On Charis and Charisma 1. Beyond Charisma: Catacombing Sensual Governance by a Painful Breaking of Human Ties Agnes Horvath 2. Charisma: From Divine Gift to the Democratic Leader-shop Camil F. Roman Part II: Plato’s Statesman 3. The Virtues of Leadership: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Arpad Szakolczai 4. Constituting Power: Plato’s Weaving of Human Emotions Harald Wydra 5. Plato’s Statesman: Defending Phronesis from Coding John O’Brien Part III: Contemporary Case Studies 6. A Study in Charisma and Trickery: The Case of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA Manussos Marangudakis 7. The Trickster Logic in Latin-America: Leadership in Argentina and Brazil Osvaldo Javier Lopez Ruiz, Fabiana Augusta Alves Jardim and Ana Lucia Teixeira 8. Political Leadership in Contemporary France: The Case of Emmanuel Macron Helen Drake 9. The Failure of Democracy in Italy: From Berlusconi to Salvini Daniel Gati 10. Viktor Orban’s Leadership: The Prince, the Political Father, and the Doomed Trickster Zoltan Balazs 11. Duplicity, Corruption and Exceptionalism in the Romanian Experience of Modernity Marius Ion Ben?a Concluding Comments Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai, and Manussos Marangudakis