Geometry of the Passions

Remo Bodei was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.

• INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONby Remo Bodei INTRODUCTIONPART 1: PASSIONS OF EXPECTATION1 The Disorder of the Passions2 Hope and Fear3 Hobbes: Politics and Fear4 Evil Because Unhappy5 Amor mortis6 Vanitas7 Fear and Rejection8 The Lynx and the Cuttlefish9 SuperstitionPART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILLSection 1: Consistency and Self-Control1 Itineraries, Deviations, and Crossroads2 Persuasion and Toughness3 Consistency and Constancy4 Fear and Delusion5 Constancy: Neostoicism and Justus Lipsius6 Rationalizing HopeSection 2: Descartes, or the Good Use of the Passions1 Masters of Themselves2 Will and Joy3 The Key to All Virtues4 Medicine of the PassionsPART 3: THE GRAMMAR OF LOVE1 Transitions2 Loving without Being LovedPART 4: THE GREAT HOPESection 1: Terror and Virtue1 The Form of the Future2 The Despotism of Liberty3 Between Hope and FearSection 2: The Invisible Sovereign1 Homo ideologicusSection 3: Heaven on Earth1 Reason in MythABBREVIATIONSINDEX