Geometry of the passions : fear, hope, happiness : philosophy and political use

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 5 Introduction to the English Translation of Geometry of the Passions 7 Introduction 15 PART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION 55 1. The Disorder of the Passions 55 2. Hope and Fear 67 3. Hobbes: Politics and Fear 77 4. Evil Because Unhappy 87 5. Amor mortis 95 6. Vanitas 109 7. Fear and Rejection 117 8. The Lynx and the Cuttlefish 131 9. Superstition 143 PART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILL 1 Section 1: Consistency and Self-Control 165 1. Itineraries, Deviations, and Crossroads 165 2. Persuasion and Toughness 173 3. Consistency and Constancy 181 4. Fear and Delusion 197 5. Constancy: Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius 213 6. Rationalizing Hope 229 Section 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions 241 1. Masters of Themselves 241 2. Will and Joy 251 3. The Key to All Virtues 265 4. Medicine of the Passions 281 PART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE 291 1. Transitions 291 2. Loving without Being Loved 311 PART 4: THE GREAT HOPE 1 Section 1: Terror and Virtue 341 1. The Form of the Future 341 2. The Despotism of Liberty 349 3. Between Hope and Fear 389 Section 2: The Invisible Sovereign 417 1. Homo ideologicus 417 Section 3: Heaven on Earth 447 1. Reason in Myth 447 Abbreviations 483 Index 495

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.