{"title":"Pleasure and Seduction in the Political Order","authors":"A. Lingis","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Most gossip is keeping in touch with a wide constellation of people, and when we gossip about their foibles, it is to produce amusement, pleasure in their irrational actions. In the human political order, seduction, glamour, and display are determinative forces in producing cooperation and conflict.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"173 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Most gossip is keeping in touch with a wide constellation of people, and when we gossip about their foibles, it is to produce amusement, pleasure in their irrational actions. In the human political order, seduction, glamour, and display are determinative forces in producing cooperation and conflict.