Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature by Meyer, Michel

Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780271020327)

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Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature by Meyer, Michel

Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature

$41.95
Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature by Meyer, Michel

Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature

$41.95
Format: Paperback
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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?



Author: Michel Meyer
ISBN-10: 0271020326
ISBN-13: 9780271020327
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.95w x 0.96d
By Michel Meyer
By Michel Meyer
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Michel Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Mons. He is the author of many books, including From Logic to Rhetoric, From Metaphysics to Rhetoric, Meaning and Reading, Of Problematology, Questions and Questioning, and Rhetoric, Language, and Reason (1994, also published by Penn State Press).

Robert F. Barsky is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearings, Introduction á la théorie littéraire, and Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.

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