Geometry of the Passions : : Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use / / Remo Bodei.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• VerfasserIn: Bodei, Remo,
• MitwirkendeR: Bodei, Remo,; Doebler, Gianpiero W. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the English Translation of Geometry of the Passions -- 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