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Geometry of the Passions : Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use / Remo Bodei.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodei, Remo, 1938- author.
- Series:
- Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library.
- Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
- Standardized Title:
- Geometria delle passioni. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (516 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the English Translation; 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 Passions1 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-1779-3
- 1-4875-1778-5
- OCLC:
- 1046085297
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