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Author Horvath, Agnes

Title Modern Leaders
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (257 p.)
Series Contemporary Liminality Ser
Contemporary Liminality Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: On charis and charisma -- 1. Beyond charisma: catacombing sensual governance by a painful breaking of human ties -- 2. Charisma: from divine gift to the democratic leader-shop -- PART II: Plato's statesman -- 3. The virtues of leadership: beyond the pleasure principle -- 4. Constituting power: Plato's weaving of human emotions -- 5. Plato's statesman: defending phronesis from coding -- PART III: Contemporary case studies
6. A study in charisma and trickery: the case of Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA -- 7. The trickster logic in Latin America: leadership in Argentina and Brazil -- 8. Political leadership in contemporary France: the case of Emmanuel Macron -- 9. The failure of democracy in Italy: from Berlusconi to Salvini -- 10. Viktor Orbán's leadership: the prince, the political father, and the doomed trickster -- 11. Duplicity, corruption, and exceptionalism in the Romanian experience of modernity -- Concluding comments -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Marangudakis, Manussos
Szakolczai, Arpad
ISBN 9781000093384
1000093387