Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature

by Michel Meyer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271020326
• ISBN13: 9780271020327
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"