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