Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery

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