On Fear - Perception and Strategies of Control in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

The volume considers the theories of the passions in Hobbes, Descartes and Spinoza. Together Descartes e Spinoza, it is necessary to recall Hobbes-s Leviathan, since this work is a consistent and relevant source for Spinoza, as far as the conception of fear as a peculiar perception of past and present is concerned.