The Rise of Polarization

This book presents a philosophical analysis of affective polarization. It rejects the two-dimensional view of affective polarization and offers a multi-dimensional approach to it.

Manuel Almagro is Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia, Spain. His main areas of research are political epistemology, political philosophy of language, and xphil. His published work has appeared in Hypatia, Metaphilosophy, Synthese, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Philosophy and Social Criticism, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, among others.

1. Introduction 2. The Labyrinth of Polarization 3. The Phenomenon of Affective Polarization 4. Building our Attachments: The Narrative Dimension of Affective Polarization 5. Increasing our Attachments: The Credence Dimension of Affective Polarization 6. Voicing our Attachments: The Emotional Language Dimension of Affective Polarization 7. Conclusion