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Revolutions generate and are generated by conflictive conceptions of reality, and populism is steered in the direction of conflicts over the definition of reality, resource allocation, and struggles over meaning. Heroism offers a beacon of guidance in the use of virtues to resolve these conflicts.
Regardless of their actual consequences, processes of change (social, political, and cultural) are imbued with exceptional distress and struggles over the meaning of the social life. There is too much at stake: who gets to win and to lose privileges, who controls the legislature and the instruments of legitimate violence, who sets forth the definitions of reality, what is worth living for, and the framework of what will be the norms of the collective life. During an undefined period, there is no clear say of who stays where nor of what becomes what. Although perhaps strictly speaking there are no periods in which societies...
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Gauna, A. (2023). Revolution, Populism, and Heroism. In: Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_372-1
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