Emotions are constantly with us. We cannot help but react emotionally to our fellow human beings and our environment, as well as to impulses from our own bodies. Emotions also play a central role in politics, in social conflicts and social movements. The affective furore that populism ignites combines feelings of impotent rage, blind hatred, envy, bitterness and a desire for revenge into resentments that poison social coexistence. But feelings of concern, sadness, compassion, empathy and hope, which are linked to human vulnerability, open up the opportunity for alternative perspectives. The aim is to use current crises and political disputes to show how emotions influence political action and how politics is made with emotions.