...This chapter highlights the importance of (unconscious) social passions in the socioeconomic system so central to development — capitalism. It focuses on the Lacanian notion of “drive,” a compulsion that stems from our ontological loss as linguistic beings, to suggest that capitalist development...

..., passions, the emotions, and even perception itself were seen subtly to come into existence and move people. Instead of drawing attention to itself as an especially significant, well-defined concept or idea, a word like insensibly occurs almost in passing in the period's writing...

... and the power of the passions over reason. Anglomania public reaction to Freemasonry drinking in clubs and in Freemasonry archives masonic Catholic Church views on Freemasonry police crackdown on Freemasons by Freemasonry banquets in lodges Jacobites military officers in lodges Montesquieu Charles...

... specifically, it examines the early modern rehabilitation of wonder as valuable emotional attitude; René Descartes's identification of surprise as a pivotal movement in the passions; and the emergence of surprise as a key term in the eighteenth-century discourse of aesthetics. It also discusses repetition...

... discusses the intersection between two forms of poetic surprise—the reversal and recognition at the heart of Aristotelian drama and the plot of unknowing and discovery essential to allegory. Finally, it explores how Milton imaginatively adapts the myth of the passions to his own poetic purposes. It shows...

...This chapter focuses on the most controversial episodes in American law that deeply divided Americans and inflamed Cold War passions all over the world: the Rosenberg case. The chapter first investigates if Kaufman gave the Rosenbergs a fair trial. It looks at how he seems to have prejudged...