Geometry of the Passions - Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Remo Bodei, Remo/ Doebler Bodei, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini
• Mitarbeit: Gianpiero W Doebler (Übersetzung), Gianpiero W. Doebler (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781487503369
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0336-9
• Seiten: 520
• Serien: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra; Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke