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„In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, … or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question. A humiliated group seeking restitution of its dignity carries far more emotional weight than people simply pursuing their economic advantage.“
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„Demand for recognition of one's identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. … Much of what passes for economic motivation is, I will argue, actually rooted in the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. This has direct implications for how we should deal with populism in the present.“
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„…contemporary liberal democracies had not fully solved the problem of thymos. Thymos is the part of the soul that craves recognition of dignity; isothymia is the demand to be respected on an equal basis with other people; while megalothymia is the desire to be recognized as superior. … Entire countries can feel disrespected, which has powered aggressive nationalism, as can religious believers...“
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