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Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
Remo Bodei (Author), Gianpiero W. Doebler (Translated by)
9781487503369
Hardback, published 26 July 2018
520 pages
23.1 x 14 x 4.1 cm, 0.92 kg
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.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION INTRODUCTION PART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION 1 The Disorder of the Passions PART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILL Section 1: Consistency and Self-Control Section 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions PART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE 1 Transitions PART 4: THE GREAT HOPE Section 1: Terror and Virtue Section 2: The Invisible Sovereign Section 3: Heaven on Earth ABBREVIATIONS INDEX
by Remo Bodei
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
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
1 Masters of Themselves
2 Will and Joy
3 The Key to All Virtues
4 Medicine of the Passions
2 Loving without Being Loved
1 The Form of the Future
2 The Despotism of Liberty
3 Between Hope and Fear
1 Homo ideologicus
1 Reason in Myth