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Author Bodei, Remo, 1938- author.

Title Geometry of the passions : fear, hope, happiness: philosophy and political use / Remo Bodei ; translated by Gianpiero W. Doebler.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library
Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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
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.
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Subject Emotions (Philosophy)
Emotions (Philosophy)
Emotions -- Political aspects.
Emotions -- Political aspects.
Emotions.
Emotions -- Sociological aspects.
Emotions -- Sociological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Doebler, Gianpiero W., translator.
Added Title Geometria delle passioni. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019000961
Other Form: Print version: 1487503369 9781487503369 (OCoLC)1024272701
ISBN 9781487517786 (electronic book)
1487517785 (electronic book)
9781487503369
1487503369