Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2018
- Category
- General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Italy, Political, General, Social
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487503369
- Publish Date
- Aug 2018
- List Price
- $125.00
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Description
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.
About the authors
Remo Bodei is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Pisa, after having taught for many years at UCLA.
Gianpiero W. Doebler is a Lecturer in the Department of Italian at UCLA.