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.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
by Remo Bodei

INTRODUCTION

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

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

1 Transitions
2 Loving without Being Loved

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

By Remo Bodei
Translated by Gianpiero W. Doebler