The Passions

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The Passions by Robert Solomon is a defense of the view that our passions constitute our world and our Selves, and that, since our passions are rational, we are in control of them, we are responsible for them, and we can change them. Contents Reason and the Passions Reason Versus the Passions The Meaning of Life The New Romanticism Passions and the Meanings in Life My World and Reality Subjectivity Reflection and Innocence The Point Philosophical Background Subjectivity Surrealism Self and Others The New Romanticism The Myth of the Passions Physiology Feelings and Behavior A Subjective Theory of the Passions What Is to Be Done? Life as the Problem Life Is Cheap in Casablanca A Genealogy of the Absurd Camuss Myth The Metaphysics of the Absurd Absurd Reasoning The Passions of Sisyphus The Logic of Emotion The Emotional Register Whos Self-deception Self-overcoming