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?
| ISBN: | 9780271020310 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2000 |
| Author: | Michel Meyer, Robert F Barsky |
| Publisher: | Penn State University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 295 pages |
| Series: | Literature and Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |