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The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.In this book, noted European philosopher Michel Meyer offers a wide-ranging exegesis, the first of its kind, that systematically retraces the history of philosophic conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and Freud. The great ruptures that led to passion's condemnation as sin, and to romantic exultation as the truth of existence, are meticulously registered and the logic governing them astutely explicated.Meyer thus provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Philosophy and the Passions
• Subtitle: Toward a History of Human Nature
• Author: Michel Meyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780271020327
• ISBN: 0271020326
• ID: 04563515
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2000

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