{"product_id":"eros-in-plato-rousseau-and-nietzsche-the-politics-of-infinity-9780271033310","title":"Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laurence D. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to \u003ci\u003ehave\u003c\/i\u003e more but to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e more--to be \u003ci\u003einfinitely\u003c\/i\u003e more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of \u003ci\u003econatus\u003c\/i\u003e and Hobbes's identification of \"a perpetual and restless desire of power after power.\" In this book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper's overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47583849054359,"sku":"9780271033310","price":4055.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271033310.webp?v=1774947203","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/eros-in-plato-rousseau-and-nietzsche-the-politics-of-infinity-9780271033310","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}