Geometry of the Passions

Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use

AvRemo Bodei

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-26
Mått:140 x 231 x 41 mm
Vikt:920 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Antal sidor:520
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487503369
Översättare:Doebler, Gianpiero W., Doebler, Gianpiero W

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Remo Bodei was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONby Remo Bodei INTRODUCTIONPART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION1 The Disorder of the Passions2 Hope and Fear3 Hobbes: Politics and Fear4 Evil Because Unhappy5 Amor mortis6 Vanitas7 Fear and Rejection8 The Lynx and the Cuttlefish9 SuperstitionPART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILLSection 1: Consistency and Self-Control1 Itineraries, Deviations, and Crossroads2 Persuasion and Toughness3 Consistency and Constancy4 Fear and Delusion5 Constancy: Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius6 Rationalizing HopeSection 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions1 Masters of Themselves2 Will and Joy3 The Key to All Virtues4 Medicine of the PassionsPART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE1 Transitions2 Loving without Being LovedPART 4: THE GREAT HOPESection 1: Terror and Virtue1 The Form of the Future2 The Despotism of Liberty3 Between Hope and FearSection 2: The Invisible Sovereign1 Homo ideologicusSection 3: Heaven on Earth1 Reason in MythABBREVIATIONSINDEX