Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
Published on 26. July 2018
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-1-4875-0336-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0336-9 (9781487503369)
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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.
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.
Content
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
by Remo Bodei
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION
1 The Disorder of the Passions
2 Hope and Fear
3 Hobbes: Politics and Fear
4 Evil Because Unhappy
5 Amor mortis
6 Vanitas
7 Fear and Rejection
8 The Lynx and the Cuttlefish
9 Superstition
PART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILL
Section 1: Consistency and Self-Control
1 Itineraries, Deviations, and Crossroads
2 Persuasion and Toughness
3 Consistency and Constancy
4 Fear and Delusion
5 Constancy: Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius
6 Rationalizing Hope
Section 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions
1 Masters of Themselves
2 Will and Joy
3 The Key to All Virtues
4 Medicine of the Passions
PART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE
1 Transitions
2 Loving without Being Loved
PART 4: THE GREAT HOPE
Section 1: Terror and Virtue
1 The Form of the Future
2 The Despotism of Liberty
3 Between Hope and Fear
Section 2: The Invisible Sovereign
1 Homo ideologicus
Section 3: Heaven on Earth
1 Reason in Myth
ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX
by Remo Bodei
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION
1 The Disorder of the Passions
2 Hope and Fear
3 Hobbes: Politics and Fear
4 Evil Because Unhappy
5 Amor mortis
6 Vanitas
7 Fear and Rejection
8 The Lynx and the Cuttlefish
9 Superstition
PART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILL
Section 1: Consistency and Self-Control
1 Itineraries, Deviations, and Crossroads
2 Persuasion and Toughness
3 Consistency and Constancy
4 Fear and Delusion
5 Constancy: Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius
6 Rationalizing Hope
Section 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions
1 Masters of Themselves
2 Will and Joy
3 The Key to All Virtues
4 Medicine of the Passions
PART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE
1 Transitions
2 Loving without Being Loved
PART 4: THE GREAT HOPE
Section 1: Terror and Virtue
1 The Form of the Future
2 The Despotism of Liberty
3 Between Hope and Fear
Section 2: The Invisible Sovereign
1 Homo ideologicus
Section 3: Heaven on Earth
1 Reason in Myth
ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX