Politics in the Times of Indignation

<i>Politics in the Times of Indignation</i> provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.<br/><br/>Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation that has accompanied the crisis of governmental legitimacy which is aggravated by the economic crisis in various countries and demonstrated by groups such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the US Podemos in Spain or La France Insoumise in France.<br/><br/>At the same time Innerarity endeavors to offer a universal rather than a merely circumstantial interpretation of the transformations that are still ongoing in our political systems as well as of those that need to be put in place in order to satisfy the expectations and rights of democratic citizenship. <i>Politics in the Times of Indignation</i> represents a guiding thread through political developments as well as a conceptual tool-box for understanding the meaning of the current crisis of representation the fate of political parties the relation between ethics and politics and how politics can become an intelligent enterprise.