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.
Michel Meyer 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?
- ISBN10 0271020318
- ISBN13 9780271020310
- Publish Date 1 November 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English