Remo Bodei

Geometry of the Passions

Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
Übersetzer: Doebler, Gianpiero W

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Produktbeschreibung

The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the 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.

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Produktdetails

• Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503369
• ISBN-10: 1487503369
• Artikelnr.: 51517803

Autorenporträt

Remo Bodei was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

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