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Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsINTRODUCTION 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
