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 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