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Universitas Philosophica
Print version ISSN 0120-5323
Abstract
GONZALEZ-MONTERO, Sebastián Alejandro and BULA, Germán. PARANOIA: PUBLIC EMOTIONS AND UNIVERSITY. Univ. philos. [online]. 2019, vol.36, n.72, pp.221-249. ISSN 0120-5323. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uph36-72.pepu.
This paper addresses the recent challenges faced by universities in teaching, research and outreach. A hermeneutical standpoint is proposed to perform a political analysis of emotions with the aim of revealing how pathological behaviors emerge in academic communities dealing with extreme social pressures. The discussion is developed in two parts: first, the concept of paranoia is characterized; second, appealing to the concept of psychological potentials, the institutional conditions in which paranoia emerges are discussed. The main conclusion of the article is that in conditions of competition and hierarchy, human beings experience negative emotions and a diminished potential for capabilities development.
Keywords : social psychology; higher education; emotions; paranoia.